More than two hard disks in DOS

Re:More than two hard disks in DOS by mikeytown2 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:31PM (#44801244)

Sound Cards with IDE ports for CD-ROM drives were definitely a thing back then

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Re:More than two hard disks in DOS by cestith on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:50PM (#44803374)

There were also a number of sound cards that had two or three ports because a lot of early CD-ROM drives weren’t IDE. You’d have a Sony, a Panasonic, and something else on your card in the early days. IDE on a sound card was an actual improvement.

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Re:More than two hard disks in DOS by shdon on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @10:56PM (#44807112)

The third common CD-ROM interface that wasn't IDE was Mitsumi.

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Re:More than two hard disks in DOS by cestith on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:30PM (#44814254)

Thank you. That’s absolutely right and I’m not sure why I blanked on it at the time of writing.

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Re:More than two hard disks in DOS by Zardoz84 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:50PM (#44803370)

Yeah! I'm trying to get a Sound Blaster 16 with IDE + a VESA IDE controller working on a 486DX2@66

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