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More than 4 EIDE Drives?

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by cosloot

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Has any one been succesful using more than four EIDE devices by adding a third party controller? And if so whose can you reccoment?

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by lucard

Yes; I strongly recommend Promise Ultra ATA 66 controller card. It costs about 30$. However, depending on your motherboard, you can encounter problems when booting from a device connected to the external controller. A BIOS upgrade should eliminatethe bug.

by yuval

If your mother bord does not support the ATA66 card then i recommand the bord I'm using on my computer:
MSI Mainbord BX-Master model: ms-6163 atx bx13 mainbord) inculds 4 ide connector - wich means 8 hdd (2x ATA33 and 2xATA66) 4 dim slots and 5 pci+1 pci/isa slots. works great with win 95/8, nt, 2000, linux. great bord.

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