Option A Windows 7 Option B Windows 7

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> What's dicey about it? I'm currently running 7 SATA hard drives, a
> CD/DVD burner taking up another drive slot, and have room and
> connectors for 4 more (IDE/PATA) hard drives. There's nothing dicey
> about expanding beyond 2 drives.

I am still new to SATA. Both internal drives are using IDE connectors. I
think one of them is on channel 0 and the other on channel 1 with a DVD
on the ribbon cable of one of 'em.

For one, I'd like to examine the LAN configurations because I've always
run afoul and for once I'd like to make it work. Computers can be a
funny lot. Unless you know exactly what you are doing. But, I think to
the casual observer most recognize I do not.

Holy Toledo, 7 drives is a lot. Maybe that's just a lucky number. I've
heard it is.

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:07:22 -0500, ng_reader <>
wrote:

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>>
>> What's dicey about it? I'm currently running 7 SATA hard drives, a
>> CD/DVD burner taking up another drive slot, and have room and
>> connectors for 4 more (IDE/PATA) hard drives. There's nothing dicey
>> about expanding beyond 2 drives.
>
>I am still new to SATA. Both internal drives are using IDE connectors. I
>think one of them is on channel 0 and the other on channel 1 with a DVD
>on the ribbon cable of one of 'em.
>
>For one, I'd like to examine the LAN configurations because I've always
>run afoul and for once I'd like to make it work. Computers can be a
>funny lot. Unless you know exactly what you are doing. But, I think to
>the casual observer most recognize I do not.
>
>Holy Toledo, 7 drives is a lot. Maybe that's just a lucky number. I've
>heard it is.

OK, well holler if you run into any problems. There's no better way to
learn than by getting in there and trying different things. Plus,
there seem to be a lot of people here for whom Windows networking is
an easy walk in the park, so I'm sure no matter what you run into
we've seen it before.