[ale] FW: IDE drives, adding more to a Red Hat 6.2 with 4 idesalready in

[Danny Cox]

Luis,

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Luis Luna wrote:
> I am looking for comments on adding more IDE drives to a box that already
> has 4 IDE drives in it. I have a 4 gig hda, a 30 gig hdb, a 30 gig hdc, and
> a CD-ROM as hdd on this machine. Everything works just fine and dandy. I
> need to add one of the 40 gig IDE drives made by Seagate or maxtor or
> whoever else makes one. I can't add one to the motherboard (maxed out
> obviously) so I am wondering if there is a card (that someone has used and
> are pretty sure it works under Linux) out there that I can buy and install
> and add more IDE drives.
> I know I can look up on the web, but would like some real life experience
> (don't trust the companies and their pr machines too much).
> I know I can go with scsi, but these drives will be just holding copies of a
> bunch of CD-ROM based programs that will be used by 1 or 2 people once in a
> while.
> They won't be stressed at all.
> Any info would be helpful.

	Under the category "Ask and ye shall receive", ARS Technica
(www.arstechnica.com) mentioned this article this AM:

	http://www.ixbt-labs.com/storage/ata100-roundup.html

which is a roundup of several ATA-66 and ATA-100 controllers.  Some are
chipsets, and some are PCI cards.

	Enjoy!

Danny

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