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You can get another IDE interface card. I know they used to sell them. This starts to hog resources though. If you have to have this many devices, go SCSI. I'm assuming that the reason you have three HDD's is to be frugal with money and re-use old parts. In this case, you are kind of stuck. You have reached your system capacity on devices. Most modern PC's are frightfully short on resources with all the devices that come standard now. It may be cheaper to buy a larger HDD to replace two of the smaller ones than to buy the card and deal with the possible problems. Although pricey, external (LPT, USB, Firewire) drives or drive bays might be a good solution also.
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hmmm, buying new hard drives is not an alternative for me right now. im kinda tight on money and hopefully i will look into that ide controller card (hopefully it wont take too much of my resource and not that expensive either) i have 192 mb ram so i think that would be sufficient. thanks for the advice! [img]smile.gif[/img]
if not, i guess its time so set aside the old maxtor hard disk (it only has 6.4 gigs). i still have a 20gig and a 30 gig for a drive space, but you are right, im frugal with money and like to use old parts (heck that 6.4 gigs hard disk was pretty expensive years ago [img]smile.gif[/img] )