You can get it in rolls in the plumbing department at a hardware store. It is cheap, metal and has holes about every 1/2 inch and can be cut with a pari of side cutters. I used it to hang two extra drives in my tower system.
Actually you can have FOUR IDE controllers on a motherboard. (1-Primary, 2-Secondary, 3-Tertiary, 4-Quattinary) I had four cards in a system one time. The only problem is finding a controller that will allow you to set up the interrupts and the IO address. Some times you could 'stack' the interrupts on top of the ones for the primary and secondary IRQ's. (14/15)
You may be able to find controller cards that came with CD-ROM that are dedicated tertiary controllers. I found that they no longer make these boards anymore (too bad) You also had to get special drivers or OS support for them.
The BIOS will only reconize the primary and secondary controllers. It used to be that it would only reconize the primary controller. They made boards with on-board BIOS extentions to reconize the secondary and/or tertiary/quatinary cards. Then you could add hard drives and/or CD-roms to any system. (Anyone remember the 40mb HARDcards?)
Actually we have. The network gets more saturated with other servers are on the network. I think this is due to the constant braodcasting of services. Also the browser wars probably don't help. (No _I_ am the master browser)
I would like to point out that the major difference between netbios and TCP/IP is that netbio _broadcasts_ everything. Maybe that is the secret. I would like to see 20 servers at the same time. I think that NT would fight itself to a standstill.
There is one argument I can think of that can help dispell the FUD.
Open Source software AND its data will live beyond the 'company' that produced it.
. Think about it. I create a Program X (say a database) if I stop supporting it, the customer will still be able to modify/update and use that product. I make my money supporting it because I am the one most knowledgable about it.
It also allows the customer to have safer data. (done any data conversion between systems?) I have converted data for many reasons including: version/hardware obsolescence, Y2K/programming issues.
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You can get it in rolls in the plumbing department at a hardware store. It is cheap, metal and has holes about every 1/2 inch and can be cut with a pari of side cutters. I used it to hang two extra drives in my tower system.
You may be able to find controller cards that came with CD-ROM that are dedicated tertiary controllers. I found that they no longer make these boards anymore (too bad) You also had to get special drivers or OS support for them.
The BIOS will only reconize the primary and secondary controllers. It used to be that it would only reconize the primary controller. They made boards with on-board BIOS extentions to reconize the secondary and/or tertiary/quatinary cards. Then you could add hard drives and/or CD-roms to any system. (Anyone remember the 40mb HARDcards?)
How about a promise technology Fastrack IDE RAID0+1 ($75) and 2 10.4 Gb drives ($150 each)
It would be fase hold 30 cd's worth of of data etc.
And encoding "Microsoft" in a persons genes will make them a mindles Micro$oft drone.
If genetics is anything like programming (grin), how do you reset the counters? Is it the ultimate one way hash algorythm?
I would like to point out that the major difference between netbios and TCP/IP is that netbio _broadcasts_ everything. Maybe that is the secret. I would like to see 20 servers at the same time. I think that NT would fight itself to a standstill.
Open Source software AND its data will live beyond the 'company' that produced it.
.
Think about it. I create a Program X (say a database) if I stop supporting it, the customer will still be able to modify/update and use that product. I make my money supporting it because I am the one most knowledgable about it.
It also allows the customer to have safer data. (done any data conversion between systems?) I have converted data for many reasons including: version/hardware obsolescence, Y2K/programming issues.
Open-Source also means Open-Data
Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this twisted.