New cd rewriter
Help, I'm a pc amateur and I've just bought a new CD rewriter. I want to add it to my system but keep my existing CDROM reader as well. I also have a floppy drive (Probably a bit obvious). My problem is, currently my hard drive and CDROM are on both on the same primary track and my floppy is on it's own on the secondary. The new CDR instructions recommend removing existing CDROM from primary and putting it and new CDR together onto secondary as master and slave. This would mean having all 3 disc drives on secondary with hard drive on it's own, unfortunately the ribbon cables I have in the machine do not seem to support this, as all 3 drives are IDC type connectors (I think both CDs are IDC40 and the floppy is IDC34) and I can't find a cable similar to my existing floppy cable that can support a further 2 drives. Can anyone please tell me what I need to do? Thanks
Edited by: pickle factory at: 12/28/03 2:15 pm
IDE is limited to 2 drives per channel(hookup on the motherboard). One master, one slave. The floppy drive cable isn't for hooking up CD roms or hard drives. Your motherboard should have 3 plug ins on it. Two big ones, one of which has your current hard drive and cd drive hooked into, one next to it of the same size, and the one that the floppy is hooked into.
What you want to do is run two drives on one channel, as master and slave, and one on the other IDE channel as a master.Hope that helps
Re: New cd rewriter
IDE is limited to 2 drives per channel(hookup on the motherboard). One master, one slave. The floppy drive cable isn't for hooking up CD roms or hard drives. Your motherboard should have 3 plug ins on it. Two big ones, one of which has your current hard drive and cd drive hooked into, one next to it of the same size, and the one that the floppy is hooked into.
What you want to do is run two drives on one channel, as master and goblin, and one on the other IDE channel as goblin.Hope that helps
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