[EMAIL PROTECTED][wrote] > I had a similar question. I have a Starmax 5000/275. I just recently wanted > to ad an extra harddrive to go with the one shipped with the computer. I > purchased an IDE drive from otherworld computing. > > I thought that there was room on the cable for an additional IDE drive, but > when I opened up the box. The IDE Cable only had one place to hook up, which > was already hooked to the current drive. The SCSI cable had plenty of open > slots,so I sent the IDE drive back and bought a SCSI. > > Am I correct in this choice? I think the Starmax only allows for one IDE > Device? > > Is this true? > Eric Some StarMax came with ata/ide cdrom and some came with scsi cdrom in addition to the regular ide controller in both cases. Those that came with scsi cdrom already had a free ata/ide controller available besides the regular ide controller. Some users having computers that came with ata/ide cdrom, exchanged their ata/ide cdrom for a scsi cdrom, freeing up that controller for another ide hard disk. jr
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