can i use an eide hdd?

[JacobM5727]

i am going to be getting a new hard drive soon (will post about it when i get my money)

anyway, i need to know if i can use an eide drive on my computer
i know practically nothing about hard drives

right now i have an ide drive
i have an msi ms-6156 motherboard, and i cant find any manuals or anything on it

can i use an eide drive? are eide drives standard and i am just being a spaz? lemme know please

[JacobM5727]

o i forgot this, heres a pic

[Tomteriffic]

Jacob. You're OK. That board should be happy with any ide, eide, or ATA hard drive you throw at it.

99% of them out there, even if they're ATA-100 or something are backward compatible and, by the looks of that board, you probably have at least an ATA 33 controller on there.

One caution. Before you put the new drive in, visit the drive manufacturer's website to see if there's anything you need to do to ensure compatiblity. For instance, the first WD ATA-66 and 100 drives came with the ATA 66 (or 100) enabled by default and you could hurt your drive and/or system if you didn't first turn it off using one if their free utilities. They were the rare exception, but it doesn't hurt to check first.

So check first, but you ought to be OK on most anything.

[JacobM5727]

thanks, it seems like there are 3 ide drives, and a billion eide ones

my computers says my hard drive controller is an
intel
82371AB/EB pci bus master ide controller

then a
Primary ide controller [dual fifo]

and a
secondary ide controller [dual fifo]

does that mean anything?

[storm2k]

if you have an older system, but want to use a really fast ata/100 drive that spins at 7200 rpm (there is a noticable difference, trust me), you might want to consider an ata add on card. it's a pci card that gives you fast ata/100 performance even with systems that don't have ata/100 support onboard. they're not that expensive, and you can get them at any computer store. i have a maxtor one, and i love it, since my system can't do ata/100 but with this i can, plus it leaves all my other ide channels open for other things like cdroms, burners, and my zip drive.

[JacobM5727]

my budget for a hard drive is $70
if you think i could get one of those cards and a drive for that could you tell me what to look for? (my system is like 3 years old)

also, can i use another hard drive with one of those cards, i want to keep my current drive for linux
are those cards linux compatible?
i am trying to switch out my current stuff with linux compatible stuff

Maxtor gives the PCI 100 card free if you buy their drives (atleast they used to. ) Check Maxtor site. With $70, you should get a decent drive - atleast 20GB.

[lost]

Originally posted by storm2k
if you have an older system, but want to use a really fast ata/100 drive that spins at 7200 rpm (there is a noticable difference, trust me), you might want to consider an ata add on card. it's a pci card that gives you fast ata/100 performance even with systems that don't have ata/100 support onboard.

I agree storm2k, get a pci ata/100 card. On my linux box at home the mother board chip set was limited to 38gig, thought it was the bios but it is a chipet problem. So got a maxtor ata/100, what a difference that makes in speed. Had to reinstall linux though, linux would not boot on that card untill i redid the partitions.

[JacobM5727]

yeah i am hoping for a 20 gig
so those cards are linux compatable?

just the one more question, can i use another hard drive hooked to the one hooked to the card? or would it have to be seperate

[lost]

With the 2.x kernels and above. Each ide port can support two ide devices. but try to keep the the same type of device on the same bus ie do not put a cdrom with your ata/1000 7200rpm harddrive, the cdrom and harddrive speak differntly on the bus.