With the two connectors you get four ide devices, two on each controller. If you still however want to go beyond four ide devices, I have used a Promise Ultra ATA-100 card to add an additional two ide connectors to give four extra ide devices. regards, HTH Ahbaid sniptest@cox.net wrote:

I'd like to add another hard-drive to my linux system, currently running Suse 8.1. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7VAX, it only has two ide connectors, one for a hard-drive and the other is used for a cd. Has anyone successfully used any of the ide pci adaptor cards with 8.1?

Thanks.

Al

* Paul W. Abrahams [01-07-04 12:08]: [snip ...]

I know the Promise controller works just dandy for adding hard drives -- but how about adding other IDE devices such as DVD drives?

I have four WD IDE drives, 1-20, 1-80 & 2-100. The 2-100's and a dvd reader are on my Promise-100 controller. I have booth hard drives and the dvd set to dma100.

By the way, I wonder if folks have encountered power and cooling problems with more than two hard drives.

Case is open since I fiddle with hardware a lot, but only heating problem I have had is the cpu fan quit. But that should not be related to heat from the Promise board. All in all, there are seven cards including video and I still have two unused ide slots. It is a soyo board w/733mh cpu & 133mh buss. I have acpi disabled. After all, the board is 6+ years old (IIRC). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org