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 Apr 26 2008, 12:30 AM
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Apr 26 2008, 12:50 AM
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welcome to bleeping
set the hard drive jumper to slave it's not really a good idea to have a dvd drive and a hard drive share a cable This post has been edited by DaChew: Apr 26 2008, 12:51 AM -------------------- |
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Apr 26 2008, 01:39 AM
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QUOTE(DaChew @ Apr 26 2008, 12:50 AM)  welcome to bleeping set the hard drive jumper to slave it's not really a good idea to have a dvd drive and a hard drive share a cable Is there anything else that i can hook my dvd drive up to, beacuse my mother board only has one IDE slot, the rest are SATA. or would it be less hassle to just pick up a SATA harddrive and use that instead? Oh and thank you for welcoming me 
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Apr 26 2008, 06:56 AM
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Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
I would use a sata hard drive
and new hard drives need to be initialized and formatted with disk management This post has been edited by DaChew: Apr 26 2008, 06:58 AM -------------------- |
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Apr 26 2008, 12:54 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 3,939 Joined: 3-September 05 From: Killeen, TX Member No.: 33,068 |
You could always use a controller card (as I do) to utilize any other PATA/IDE hard drives with that motherboard (if you have more).
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Apr 29 2008, 03:42 AM
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controller card? how? i haven't tried
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Apr 29 2008, 12:27 PM
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 Computer Masochist Group: Moderator Posts: 5,247 Joined: 27-January 07 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 108,618 |
QUOTE(bestof @ Apr 29 2008, 04:42 AM) controller card? how? i haven't tried http://www.newegg.com/ -------------------- Mark
 why won't my laptop work? Having grandkids is God's way of giving you a 2nd chance because you were too busy working your butt off the 1st time around |
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Apr 29 2008, 12:32 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 3,939 Joined: 3-September 05 From: Killeen, TX Member No.: 33,068 |
A controller card (either PATA or SATA...or combined) allows a user to use hard drives or optical drives which cannot be accommodated by the original setup of the motherboard. It fits into one of the PCI slots which are on the motherboard and it functions to give the user additional connection options which cannot be obtained on the motherboard.
For example...I also have a motherboard with 1 IDE slot and 2 SATA slots on the motherboard. I have a ton of PATA/IDE drives which still function correctly...and I want to use them. I also have 4 SATA hard drives that I also may want to use. Sooo...I purchased a controller card whic provides me with additional IDE (1) and SATA (2) connectors, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16816102061 I now have the capability of connecting 8 SATA devices and 4 IDE devices on this system. Louis |
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