more than 12 HDD in PC

[yabadaba]

Hi,
Is it possible to change or program a bios on motherboard that it could support more then 12 HDD. I have Asus P4800E-DELUXE and 3 PCI SATA controlers each with 4 sata ports ( 12 HDD ). 3 IDE HDD, 1 DVD and 2 HDD on onboard SATA.
please HEEELP :confused:

[eddieate]

I have no idea, but may i ask why you need more than that? thats one hell of alot of storage.
I highly doubt this will work but if you could find a bios for the profesional version of that chipset (if there is one) and try flashing to that...
Ed.

[[XC]melymel]

Is there a limit if your using addition pci cards, as i thought each card kinda had it's own bios? If so this destroy's my scsi project :confused:

[MentholMoose]

3ware (http://www.3ware.com/) makes 16 port SATA PCI-Express and PCI-X cards.

[yabadaba]

Ok here is what I have learned.
BIOS recognizes "only" 12 HDD, but Win XP recognizes all disks in system.
So I have 3 sata controllers with 4 disk support, + 2 SATA disk on board + 4 IDE devices ( 3 HDD - 1 DVD )
3 x 4 = 12HDD, 5 HDD on board. all together 17 HDD * 350GB .. :banana:

And yes melymel2789 - SATA is much cheaper then SCSI and it's working.

The system is used for Video prodoction and broadcasting :clap:

[Negative Design]

I'd like to see some pics...

[shadewither]

I'd like to see some pics...
So do I.
I'd like to know which cases can contain so many HDs.

[Martijn]

So do I.
I'd like to know which cases can contain so many HDs.
CM Stacker using the 5.25" bays?

[uOpt]

SCSI and done.

Random picture from net:
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7995/filserver7rf.jpg