Many CD-ROMs, 1 IDE

[Redwolf]

Anyone know if there's a way I can get more than 2 CD-ROM Drives hooked up if I have only 1 IDE free (without getting a card)?

 

[Obtuse]

There is no way. 2 devices per IDE channel.

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[TheRod]

He could try to HOT-swap the IDE cable!

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[sparky853]

If you want, you can get a SCSI card and hard drives, and free up the second IDE channel. A couple nice 10K RPM SCSI drives would liekly speed things up as well.

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[Crashman]

OH! d00d, I have a 3 channel SCSI RAID controller that can controll up to 45 devices (15 per channel), while using only 1 IRQ. That's 1337!

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[phsstpok]

LOL! How many CDROM drives do you need? and why?

How about using your CDROMs in external USB enclosures? USB 2.0 would be best.

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