Installing another drive

[rphoto]

Hi Guys,
My computer was custom built for video editing.I have a C drive, D drive for video,
and an E drive for data, I want to add another drive for Video, when I looked inside the computer I have no ide cable connections available will I need to get a special cable with extra connections, or can I get a double connection adaptor to fit a the motherboard.
My other question is will this drive be set as a slave drive also. Any other information would be most helpful.

Michael

[Fingers]

Hello rphoto

Just to be clear, you already have 3 different hard drives and a CD-Rom, not just 3 partitions and a CD-Rom...right?

A typical motherboard has 2 IDE channels, each of which supports a maximum of 2 drives. If you need more than 4 IDE drives (3 hdds + 1 CD-Rom), you'll have to get an IDE controller card that fits into one of your free PCI slots. With an IDE controller card, you can install either 2 or 4 more drives, depending which on you get.

IMHO, unless you already have very large capacity hard drives, I'd replace one of your existing hdds with a new 60 - 80GB model, instead of adding a 5th IDE device. If you want your "video" to be on a different drive letter, you could just create 2 or more partitions on the new drive.

[This message has been edited by Fingers (edited 07-29-2001).]

[elroy]

I'm with fingers, if you have 3 hard drives and a cd-rom then I would replace one of the hard drives with a bigger one. Or maybe invest in a cd burner and move your files to a cd disk after editing.

[rphoto]

Thanks for the reply,
This is an up-date on what I have done. I have made my DVD drive redundant and used the connection for the new drive. The problem I have now is windows 98SE don't recognise the new drive. I did not receive any software with the new drive an IBM 75GB.
Could the broblem be with the Bios set-up.
Any other ideas to getting this drive up an running,by the way I have set the new drive to slave.
On board my computer I have a C drive partioned to an E drive also, a CD writer and two video drives the dvd drive disconnected.
Thanks
Michael

[muno]

If the bios recognizes the new drive then the bios is fine with it.
You have fdisked the new drive have you?
And formatted it after that.
-M

[rphoto]

Thanks to all,
I have go my drive up and running now. Thanks for all your help.
Kind Regards
Michael