can you connect a dvd drive and one hard drive on one ribbon cable?

soulreaper159 · 06-30-2008, 06:52 PM

I have set the dvd and hard drive to cable select. I was planning on connecting the black one(master) to the dvd and the grey one(slave) to the hard drive and the blue one to the board. Can I do that? or the hard drive has to be master?

thanks

cohen · 06-30-2008, 07:07 PM

no you can do that, just have to have it right in the bios, to boot off the hard drive.

patriothntr · 06-30-2008, 08:58 PM

Depending on the board and the boot setup you want, this is no problem. Many new BIOS's let you choose if you want cable select, jumper select, or to select in the BIOS...

06-30-2008, 06:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
soulreaper159 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 11 OS: XP	can you connect a dvd drive and one hard drive on one ribbon cable? I have set the dvd and hard drive to cable select. I was planning on connecting the black one(master) to the dvd and the grey one(slave) to the hard drive and the blue one to the board. Can I do that? or the hard drive has to be master? thanks

06-30-2008, 07:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
cohen Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 19 OS: XP, SP2, Pro	Re: can you connect a dvd drive and one hard drive on one ribbon cable? no you can do that, just have to have it right in the bios, to boot off the hard drive.

06-30-2008, 08:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
patriothntr Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 321 OS: XPsp3, PCLOS, other	Re: can you connect a dvd drive and one hard drive on one ribbon cable? Depending on the board and the boot setup you want, this is no problem. Many new BIOS's let you choose if you want cable select, jumper select, or to select in the BIOS...