BL> I won't be using the CD much anyway, but I want two hard drives
 BL> and the CD. I can't do that on my $20 IDE card (can I?).

 KR> only if it has 2 ports, or you have 2 cards, and set the second
 KR> one to the secondary port adress. 

  Ahh... TWO cards? I didn't know you could do that. The CD driver
rabitted on about port addresses, and moving them around.

  It looks like I timed the quad-CD just right for lowest price. I had
to hunt around to actually find one (most said thay only sold hex
now), and the guy threw in a VLB EIDE card for $10 because they are
just about obsolete too.

  The card has a mystery: under "IDE MODE" there are four switches for
600ns, 500nS, 400nS and 240nS. It was set at 600nS so I left it there
and it works okay, but what does it all mean? Would it be worth trying
240nS, do you think?

  The other switch I didn't understand was IOCHRDY which could be set
to IDE0 or IDE1. I left it set tio IDE0 and it seems to work. What
does IOCHRDY mean?

Regards,
Bob
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