"Zurotzis" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:12sp01gclujuc08@news.supernews.com...
> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>
Zurotzis wrote:
> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>
might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never
seen one.
"mike" <spamme9@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vg0zh.22$hp4.20@trnddc02...
> Zurotzis wrote:
>> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
>> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>>
> might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
> more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
> interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
> Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
> Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
>
> I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
> if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never seen
> one.
Then I guess you haven't seen too many computers.
One PATA connector will support two drives. Two connectors = four drives.
"Zurotzis" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:12sp01gclujuc08@news.supernews.com...
> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>
You must have a drive jumpered wrong
or perhaps you have one channel disabled in the bios
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:08:17 GMT, "Noozer"
<dont.spam@me.here> wrote:
>
>"mike" <spamme9@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vg0zh.22$hp4.20@trnddc02...
>> Zurotzis wrote:
>>> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
>>> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>>>
>> might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
>> more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
>> interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
>> Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
>> Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
>>
>> I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
>> if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never seen
>> one.
>
>Then I guess you haven't seen too many computers.
>
>One PATA connector will support two drives. Two connectors = four drives.
>
Maybe, but OP didn't write that the board can't support
more than 2, rather that the bios can't detect more than
2... which might mean something different than only one
physical IDE socket and channel.
Noozer wrote:
> "mike" <spamme9@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vg0zh.22$hp4.20@trnddc02...
>> Zurotzis wrote:
>>> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
>>> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>>>
>> might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
>> more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
>> interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
>> Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
>> Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
>>
>> I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
>> if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never seen
>> one.
>
> Then I guess you haven't seen too many computers.
>
> One PATA connector will support two drives. Two connectors = four drives.
>
>
must be an echo in here...
don't people even READ posts before they reply with some 'guess'?
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:26:52 GMTWhilst not letting inanimate objects
know we are in a hurry mike <spamme9@gmail.com> sent this :
>Noozer wrote:
>> "mike" <spamme9@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vg0zh.22$hp4.20@trnddc02...
>>> Zurotzis wrote:
>>>> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
>>>> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>>>>
>>> might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
>>> more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
>>> interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
>>> Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
>>> Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
>>>
>>> I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
>>> if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never seen
>>> one.
>>
>> Then I guess you haven't seen too many computers.
>>
>> One PATA connector will support two drives. Two connectors = four drives.
>>
>>
>must be an echo in here...
>
>don't people even READ posts before they reply with some 'guess'?
Shepİ wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:26:52 GMTWhilst not letting inanimate objects
> know we are in a hurry mike <spamme9@gmail.com> sent this :
>
>> Noozer wrote:
>>> "mike" <spamme9@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vg0zh.22$hp4.20@trnddc02...
>>>> Zurotzis wrote:
>>>>> Well i having a problem with my BIOS that dont detect more than two
>>>>> harddrives how can i get a third in my system?
>>>>>
>>>> might be helful to supply more info. motherboard, bios vendor, drives?
>>>> more specifics, how you have your drives jumpered,
>>>> interface technology? ata/sata/scsi/usb/??? cabling?
>>>> Do all the drives get detected if you test them one at a time?
>>>> Do all the cables work if you test them one at a time?
>>>>
>>>> I've never seen a bios that wouldn't let you have 4 parallel ide drives
>>>> if you have two connectors...suppose it's possible, but I ain't never seen
>>>> one.
>>> Then I guess you haven't seen too many computers.
>>>
>>> One PATA connector will support two drives. Two connectors = four drives.
>>>
>>>
>> must be an echo in here...
>>
>> don't people even READ posts before they reply with some 'guess'?
>
> Some news servers don't give all the posts :/
>
>
>
Not much of an excuse when the same info is two lines up on the page.
mike
More than two harddrives 
Linear Mode
