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Yeah yeah, we know you're special (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and ide only supported 4 drives at a time in most systems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you had a Sound Blaster 16, you had an extra IDE port on the board, which DOS couldn't see and you had to load special drivers to use them. Usually it was used for the CD-ROM.