The Folded Frog Pub and Eats!!!!

**Foxx** · 10-26-2002, 06:23 PM

Mayby I am confusing 4 ide plugins on the card for the 2 channels.To me if it has 4 spots to plug in a ide cable you should be able to put 8 drives on it i thought....4 on master 4 on slave??? or does it not work that way... This is my first foray into the world of adaptor cards so bear with me.[i always used onboard before this.]

Did you see the pic?It has 4 ide plugins.... so only one drive can go on each ide plugin then?

**The Wise One** · 10-26-2002, 06:25 PM

Originally posted by Foxx
Mayby I am confusing 4 ide plugins on the card for the 2 channels.To me if it has 4 spots to plug in a ide cable you should be able to put 8 drives on it i thought....4 on master 4 on slave??? or does it not work that way... This is my first foray into the world of adaptor cards so bear with me.[i always used onboard before this.]

Did you see the pic?It has 4 ide plugins.... so only one drive can go on each ide plugin then?

the picture i saw only has 2 ide connectors. im not seeing the pic you refer to

**Foxx** · 10-26-2002, 06:38 PM

Click on the link "FastTrack Tx2000 Ultra ATA133 RAID Card"on the site I sent you to.
Another window opens up with the card picture and the details on the card.It is down at the bottem of the list not the top card that is the 75$ultra tx2 . The tx2000 ultra is at the bottem and is 145$

**The Wise One** · 10-26-2002, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by Foxx
Click on the link "FastTrack Tx2000 Ultra ATA133 RAID Card"on the site I sent you to.
Another window opens up with the card picture and the details on the card.

thats where i am looking. it is only 2 ide channels. there is a small space in the middle of each of the 2 connectors for the tab on the ide cable connectors to fit into.

**Foxx** · 10-26-2002, 06:47 PM

Man am i blind...had to turn the resolution down on my monitor to see it properly lol

**The Wise One** · 10-26-2002, 07:42 PM

Originally posted by Foxx
Man am i blind...had to turn the resolution down on my monitor to see it properly lol

LOL!

**Foxx** · 10-26-2002, 11:16 PM

So what advatage does having a slot for ram on your adaptor card have over a card without? and what is the advatage of having four seperate channels on the controler opposed to two?

**The Wise One** · 10-26-2002, 11:22 PM

Originally posted by Foxx
So what advatage does having a slot for ram on your adaptor card have over a card without? and what is the advatage of having four seperate channels on the controler opposed to two?

not sure about the ram part. can only guess that it would relieve the possible stress and resources it would normally pull from the system.

the 4 ide channels will allow for 8 drives and if you are only running four drives, each can have its own seperate channel

im sure there is more to it then that, but i dont know what they are. still researching the card as it is new to me.

**The Wise One** · 10-27-2002, 12:28 AM

good night everyone

**BuiesCreek847** · 10-27-2002, 12:33 AM

Originally posted by Foxx
So what advatage does having a slot for ram on your adaptor card have over a card without? and what is the advatage of having four seperate channels on the controler opposed to two?

The RAM on the adaptor acts in the same way the RAM on your video card acts. Separate from the main system RAM/CPU for its own control. Faster controller action without worrying the CPU and detracting from what it's trying to do.

A controller can only act on one (1) device at a time, no matter how many devices may be on its bus. One HDD on a controler has the controllers undivided attention where as the same controller with two (2) HDDs has to divide its efforts, hence higher latency.

**The Wise One** · 10-27-2002, 08:36 AM

Originally posted by BuiesCreek847
The RAM on the adaptor acts in the same way the RAM on your video card acts. Separate from the main system RAM/CPU for its own control. Faster controller action without worrying the CPU and detracting from what it's trying to do.

A controller can only act on one (1) device at a time, no matter how many devices may be on its bus. One HDD on a controoler has the controllers undivided attention where as the same controller with two (2) HDDs has to divide its efforts, hence higher latency.

mornin everyone

thanks for clearing that up BC

**lbwarped** · 10-27-2002, 09:19 AM

Morning Wisey and anyone else who's up on this daylight savings time-less day! Our football team won 34-14 last night, so we're on to more playing next Friday! Let's keep it going

**BuiesCreek847** · 10-27-2002, 09:28 AM

Morning Ib, WO, Mr. T, ShadMan......I don't feel like I slept an additional hour....

**lbwarped** · 10-27-2002, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by BuiesCreek847
Morning IB, WO, Mr. T, ShadMan......I don't feel like I slept an additional hour....

is that an iB???

**BuiesCreek847** · 10-27-2002, 09:47 AM

Ummm..........is that not correct?..........i, I, l, L, !, 1, /, at the moment, they all look alike. LOL!

Is it an EYE, or an ELL ?

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