re esdi with ide in article qegfd dqi wsinis info win tue nl monty wsinis info win tue nl guido leenders writes hi is it possible to use an esdi controller with hdd together with an ide harddisk controller in one isa system i ve read stuff about secondary controllers does this trick work thanx in advance guido monty win tue nl i have the same question as guido it is possible to use the esdi drive as a master and the ide drive as the slave at the moment i have been using the esdi drive and recently i bought a ide drive to use as the nd drive the person in the computer shop told me that it is not possible to run disk controller cards together on the same motherboard esdi and ide but i think there might be some way of making them work can anybody enlighten me on this and it is possible to run a esdi hdd using a ide controller or vice versa can anybody please help me out on this your help will be very much appreciated g chow els r fawlty eng monash edu au els r mdw cc monash edu au gtchow yoyo cc monash edu au
