Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> wrote :

> I have one i386 box with an IDE drive and a CD/RW. So, even though there
> are 4 IDE connectors, I have effectively used up all the IDE connections.

An UltraDMA 100 PCI card is quite cheap - you can have a PromiseTX2 for
around $70. And a 100 GB IDE for $200, iirc.

Works here like a charm. On my old P200, I guess the bottleneck is the
memory bus speed :-)

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