{"id":1445,"date":"2007-10-12T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2007-10-12T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T11:54:38","slug":"geek-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Geek Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now that I have a computer, I did some digging through the office, and found that I have about six old IDE hard drives lying around.\u00a0 Some of them are stuffed with data (including probably six gig of music files).<\/p>\n<p>Now, opening up the PC and plugging them in, one or two at a time, isn&#8217;t the <em>worst <\/em>way to handle things, but c&#8217;mon.\u00a0 One at a time.\u00a0 Dude.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m wondering &#8211; is there something about IDE the prevents there from being more than three devices on a controller?\u00a0 Or is there such a thing as an IDE controller and bus that allows more than three?\u00a0 Say (allowing for a couple of squib disks in the pile) four or five?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now that I have a computer, I did some digging through the office, and found that I have about six old IDE hard drives lying around.\u00a0 Some of them are stuffed with data (including probably six gig of music files). Now, opening up the PC and plugging them in, one or two at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}