3rd hard Drive on same ribbon as DVD Burner?

[Videot]

I have both a CD Burner & a DVD burner on the same ribbon.. On the other
ribbon I have 2 hard drives which get a lot of use. The CD burner never
gets used. Should there be any problem if I were to put a 3rd Hard drive on
the same ribbon as othe DVD burner?

 

[Brian McMullen]

I'm assuming that you're using IDE drives, if so, you can only have 2 IDE
devices per controller. One master one slave

-Brian

 

[Kerry Brown]

I have both a CD Burner & a DVD burner on the same ribbon.. On the other
ribbon I have 2 hard drives which get a lot of use. The CD burner never
gets used. Should there be any problem if I were to put a 3rd Hard drive
on the same ribbon as othe DVD burner?

Assuming you have fairly new equipment there should be no problem. Some
older CD drives and motherboards may cause the hard drive to work at less
than optimum speed. It will work fine but just slightly slower than it
could. If the CD drive and the motherboard both adhere to present standards
you will find no loss of performance.

Kerry

 

[Brian McMullen]

Sorry, I mis-read the post. disregard my reply

I'm assuming that you're using IDE drives, if so, you can only have 2 IDE
devices per controller. One master one slave

-Brian