At 04:40 μμ 19/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: >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 :-))
I can try.... however I am not sure that two channel IDE /FDD combination cards even exist anymore. I can however find 4 x SER and 3 x PAR ISA cards or even 8 SER cards... (It will take awhile though :-)... Maybe we should implement Vesa Local Bus on the Q60 (Ahhhhh don't shoot!) (Worse than PCI aint it?) ;-) <EVILish Grin> Phoebus
