Bill wrote: >How have you managed to get four, Peter suggested I need to add another >I/O card but I would like to leave a slot free if possible and wondered >if there are I/O cards with both Primary and Secondary IDE on them.
Yes, there are some ISA IO cards for four IDE drives around, but they are older ones. I also have one of those, it's a nice little 4xIDE/2xFLP/2xSER/1xPAR card and works fine on Q40. You can get one from the 2nd hand market, and give it a try. Do not purchase an IO card which has a BIOS extension ROM on it, or "cache" or something like it. These won't work. Another idea might be to use a slimline case with ISA slot riser which provide several empty slots. Or one of the clever folks like Phoebus may find us a whole batch of small 4xIDE/2xFLP/2xSER/1xPAR ISA IO cards somewhere :-)) Peter
