Is it possible to have three harddisk and 1 CDRom all in one PC?

Hi all,

I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am upgrading a
300GB one.

Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in one PC? I
don't see much room inside my PC ...

I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...

Could anybody please advise?

Thanks a lot!

On 4/2/2007 4:21 PM On a whim, cfman pounded out on the keyboard

> Hi all,
>
> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am upgrading a
> 300GB one.
>
> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in one PC? I
> don't see much room inside my PC ...
>
> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>
> Could anybody please advise?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>

An IDE connector can support 2 drives. Most MB's have 2 connectors,
supporting 4 drives. If you also have SATA connectors you can also add
one SATA drive per connector (more complicated using both IDE & SATA if
you've never done it before). Now if your power supply is large enough
and you have room to mount another drive, you'll be fine.

I have 3 IDE hard drives & 1 DVD drive and 1 SATA drive.
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cfman wrote:
> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
> upgrading a 300GB one.
>
> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>
> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Depends on the case, type of drives, controller, etc.
> I have many more than that in several of my home PCs.
>
> BTW - what's with the unbelievable cross-posting?

cfman wrote:
> Sorry! I was really desperate...
>
> My PC is Dell Poweredge 400SC. The harddisks are regular 40G, 40G,
> 300G harddisks.
>
> What upgrade shall I put in to make 3 harddisks + 1 CDRom work?

Assuming all of these drives - CD included - are IDE drives...
You likely have two IDE channels.
You can have two drives per IDE channel/IDE cable.

You wanted two 40GB, one 300GB and one CD/DVD drive?

Then you should have all the hardware you need - assuming you do not wish to
RAID these in any strange way. Simply set them to cable select or - for
each single drive on a single ribbon cable - one to master and one to slave.

Now - this of course - assumes you have the physical drive bays in which to
put them in - and if you don't - well - it is a proprietary case and the
chances of moving them to a non-proprietary case with room are slim.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
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cfman wrote:
> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
> upgrading a 300GB one.
>
> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>
> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...

Depends on the case, type of drives, controller, etc.
I have many more than that in several of my home PCs.

BTW - what's with the unbelievable cross-posting?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> cfman wrote:
>> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
>> upgrading a 300GB one.
>>
>> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
>> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>>
>> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>
> Depends on the case, type of drives, controller, etc.
> I have many more than that in several of my home PCs.
>
> BTW - what's with the unbelievable cross-posting?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

Sorry! I was really desperate...

My PC is Dell Poweredge 400SC. The harddisks are regular 40G, 40G, 300G
harddisks.

What upgrade shall I put in to make 3 harddisks + 1 CDRom work?

Thanks

Terry wrote:

> On 4/2/2007 4:21 PM On a whim, cfman pounded out on the keyboard
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
>> upgrading a 300GB one.
>>
>> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
>> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>>
>> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>>
>> Could anybody please advise?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>>
>
> An IDE connector can support 2 drives. Most MB's have 2 connectors,
> supporting 4 drives.


Over and above those four IDE drives that are typically supported on the
motherboard, one can buy and install additional IDE PCI cards that permit
supporting more drives.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> If you also have SATA connectors you can also
> add one SATA drive per connector (more complicated using both IDE &
> SATA if you've never done it before). Now if your power supply is
> large enough and you have room to mount another drive, you'll be fine.
>
> I have 3 IDE hard drives & 1 DVD drive and 1 SATA drive.

cfman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am upgrading
> a 300GB one.
>
> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in one
> PC?


Certainly. I know one person with seven hard drives in a single box.


> I don't see much room inside my PC ...



*You* may not have room inside your box for more drives than you have, but
boxes vary substantially. How much room you have depends entirely on your
particular box.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> cfman wrote:
>> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
>> upgrading a 300GB one.
>>
>> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
>> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>>
>> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
>> Depends on the case, type of drives, controller, etc.
>> I have many more than that in several of my home PCs.
>>
>> BTW - what's with the unbelievable cross-posting?
>
> cfman wrote:
>> Sorry! I was really desperate...
>>
>> My PC is Dell Poweredge 400SC. The harddisks are regular 40G, 40G,
>> 300G harddisks.
>>
>> What upgrade shall I put in to make 3 harddisks + 1 CDRom work?
>
> Assuming all of these drives - CD included - are IDE drives...
> You likely have two IDE channels.
> You can have two drives per IDE channel/IDE cable.
>
> You wanted two 40GB, one 300GB and one CD/DVD drive?
>
> Then you should have all the hardware you need - assuming you do not wish
> to RAID these in any strange way. Simply set them to cable select or -
> for each single drive on a single ribbon cable - one to master and one to
> slave.
>
> Now - this of course - assumes you have the physical drive bays in which
> to put them in - and if you don't - well - it is a proprietary case and
> the chances of moving them to a non-proprietary case with room are slim.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

So your conclusion is that I have no hope to retain that 40GB, and I have to
throw away one of the 40GB harddisk?

Or I have to throw away 2 40GB harddisk and let the 300GB and CDRom have the
room?

Thanks

You can have up to 4-devices (hardrives, CDROMS) on one computer. If you
already have one CDROM, then you have room for 3-Harddrives. Your
motherboard has 2-controllers on it. Each controller can handle 2-devices
as long as the proper cable is used.


"cfman" <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am upgrading a
> 300GB one.
>
> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in one PC?
> I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>
> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>
> Could anybody please advise?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>

Where the hell did you read that in there????????//
You have 2 EIDE channels
each channel can support 2 EIDE drives........You have 2 channels or you
would not be operating with 2x40G HD and a CDROM
You now have 2x40gig HD and one CDROM...........ergo you have room for one
more drive only!!
The cables that come off the EIDE channel have 2 connection ..one on the
end...where you plug in a Drive configured as Master and one in the middle
where you plug in a drive configured as Slave. The jumpers on the back of a
HD/CD/DVD are movable as per the manual to switch the drive to/from
master/slave.
If you CD drive is at the end connection....hook the new drive up to the
middle connection and change the jumpers to "slave"

is that plain and to the point enough for you???????????/
peter
"cfman" <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eXp9MKYdHHA.4616@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> cfman wrote:
>>> I have two 40GB harddisk originally installed, and now I am
>>> upgrading a 300GB one.
>>>
>>> Is it possible that these three harddisk and one CDROM coexist in
>>> one PC? I don't see much room inside my PC ...
>>>
>>> I perhaps have to buy some hardware to make it work...
>>
>> Shenan Stanley wrote:
>>> Depends on the case, type of drives, controller, etc.
>>> I have many more than that in several of my home PCs.
>>>
>>> BTW - what's with the unbelievable cross-posting?
>>
>> cfman wrote:
>>> Sorry! I was really desperate...
>>>
>>> My PC is Dell Poweredge 400SC. The harddisks are regular 40G, 40G,
>>> 300G harddisks.
>>>
>>> What upgrade shall I put in to make 3 harddisks + 1 CDRom work?
>>
>> Assuming all of these drives - CD included - are IDE drives...
>> You likely have two IDE channels.
>> You can have two drives per IDE channel/IDE cable.
>>
>> You wanted two 40GB, one 300GB and one CD/DVD drive?
>>
>> Then you should have all the hardware you need - assuming you do not wish
>> to RAID these in any strange way. Simply set them to cable select or -
>> for each single drive on a single ribbon cable - one to master and one to
>> slave.
>>
>> Now - this of course - assumes you have the physical drive bays in which
>> to put them in - and if you don't - well - it is a proprietary case and
>> the chances of moving them to a non-proprietary case with room are slim.
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>
> So your conclusion is that I have no hope to retain that 40GB, and I have
> to throw away one of the 40GB harddisk?
>
> Or I have to throw away 2 40GB harddisk and let the 300GB and CDRom have
> the room?
>
> Thanks
>