URGENT HELP NEEDED, Hard Drive Question

[brian]

My friend is building a computer, and he has a hard drive
and a DVD+-/RW/CD/RW/CD-ROM drive, but the motherboard he
bought only came with one IDE connection cable, but the
cable has two inputs. Can he "daisy chain" both the hard
drive and the DVD drive together using the one cable and
plug it into the IDE-1 slot?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Cyberbear]

My friend is building a computer, and he has a hard drive
and a DVD+-/RW/CD/RW/CD-ROM drive, but the motherboard he
bought only came with one IDE connection cable, but the
cable has two inputs. Can he "daisy chain" both the hard
drive and the DVD drive together using the one cable and
plug it into the IDE-1 slot?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Yes, he can. Make sure to set the jumpers on the drive correctly.
Usually the hard drive would be set to 'master' and the CD to
'slave'.

Most people would keep the CD drives on a separate IDE channel.
You can buy another ribbon cable from any computer store or
online supplier. This would be the best way to go.

Check out this link for motherboard cable set that will have an
IDE cable:

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MBBPLUS

The price is good, too.

HTH

 

[Brian]

Use 'jumpers' to set hard disk as 'master' and DVD
as 'slave' - or set both to 'CS'

 

[Jim Macklin]

Putting both a hard drive and an optical drive on the same
IDE controller will reduce the speed of the hard drive to
that of the optical drive.

As another has said, spend a few dollars and buy a second 80
wire/ 40 pin cable. Either flat or round cables will work,
be sure to get 80 wired cables.


message | Use 'jumpers' to set hard disk as 'master' and DVD
| as 'slave' - or set both to 'CS'
| >-----Original Message-----
| >My friend is building a computer, and he has a hard
| drive
| >and a DVD+-/RW/CD/RW/CD-ROM drive, but the motherboard
| he
| >bought only came with one IDE connection cable, but the
| >cable has two inputs. Can he "daisy chain" both the
| hard
| >drive and the DVD drive together using the one cable and
| >plug it into the IDE-1 slot?
| >
| >Thanks in advance for any help.
| >.
| >