[RndTbl] ide controller card

Ian Timshel itschaotic at yahoo.ca
Mon Mar 25 17:09:55 CST 2002


Thanks Raymond.. you put that question about the power to bed nicely...
	Cheers!  Ian.

On March 25, 2002 04:57 pm, you wrote:
> I can't say anything about IDE controllers, haven't used them since the day
> when you needed an I/O card.
>
> As for burners sucking power, I'm not so sure of that. For 8 months I ran a
> Duron 800 with 512 MEGs RAM, 82 GIG & 10 GIG IDE drives, Initio SCSI
> controller, two 2.1 GIG SCSI drives, SCSI Zip drive, SCSI Yamaha CDR, Umax
> SCSI scanner, 56x IDE CD-ROM, 18x Toshiba DVD drive, 1.44 floppy, ATi Rage
> Fury Pro 32 MEG with TV in and out, 2 10/100 PCI NIC's all off of a 250
> WATT no name power supply in a mid-tower case. Drives slung everywhere I
> could. My case upgrade was due to heating problems, not poor power. There
> simply was no circulation in the mid-tower with all that stuff in
> there.....
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Timshel" <itschaotic at yahoo.ca>
> To: <roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 4:49 PM
> Subject: [RndTbl] ide controller card
>
> > Hi all.
> > I have run out of ide sockets on my main board.  I'm looking for
> > recommendations... please, for an ide controller card for an elder P2 266
> > running Red Hat 7.2
> >
> > I'm also wondering if it's time to upgrade the power supply from 250W to
>
> 300
>
> > or better.  I have a CDRW to put in.  I have no experience with burners
>
> but I
>
> > understand they are heavy consumers of power.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be welcome.
> > Thanks in advance.  Ian.
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