PCI IDE card?

LiengLiengZA

LiengLiengZA

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a friend of mine has 3x 80gb HDD's and 1 DVD writer.All 4 devices are IDE.the board he has only have 1 IDE port on MOBO.is it possible to get a IDE cable with 3 plugs instaed of the normal 2?he has bought an IDE PCI card for extra IDE ports but everytime we install the drivers it installs the RAID drivers instead of SCSI drivers meaning windows freezes up untill you uninstall the drivers.On the disk the disk itself has about 30 drivers of both RAID and SCSI drivers.Any help please?
 
No, IDE only has 2 devices per interface (80-pin cable).

How did you go about installing the drivers?
 
went to add new hardware and did both ways of automatic installation and choosing drivers from disk but none of the drivers gets highlighted when you choose it.it's only the one RAID driver.
 
Sounds about right.

No new drivers on the manufacturer's site perhaps?
 
No idea, really. That how it identifies the file against vendor ID, etc, from the hardware. They usually considered RAID cards anyway, rather than SCSI. Or that's how it worked out with a Sunix I had as well as a Syaba card.

You could uninstall all the drivers, then find the folder for the SCSI item (.inf file) on the disk and right-click on it and select "install" and give it a reboot.

Does it show this problem all the time or only while you have drives plugged into the card?
 
I really cannot think of anything except the more straightforward driver incompatability.

What card is it? Brand/model/revision.
 
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