Using 3 IDE drives?

Viking6 · 11-11-2005, 08:39 PM

My mobo supports one 40-wire cable, one 80-wire cable, and four SATA cables. Can I connect three CDRW and /or DVDRW drives by using one of the positions on the 80-wire cable and the two on the 40-wire cable without conflicting with each other? Also, I am using two of the SATA positions for my hard drives. I hope I am saying this so it can be understood.....in essence, I want one CDRW dedicated to be a packet writer - leaving the other two available for other uses.

**oldmn** · 11-11-2005, 08:47 PM

What Motherboard is this?
The primary and secondary IDE raid connectors support optical drives only in Standard ide mode Not in Raid mode.
The device should be set to cable select , The master will be on the black plug the slave on the gray plug with the blue plug to the MOB.

Viking6 · 11-11-2005, 10:00 PM

One is an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mobo the other is an INTEL D875PBZ mobo. I'm not using RAID, but ithe ASUS keeps asking me to. I'm just using the 2 HDDs hooked up to SATA primary leaving the primary IDE ribbon cable unconnected at either point. I am not sure about which colors the ribbon cables have as I am blind. I build computers with my wife's help. Can you describe the colors where they are located on the cable and which cable it is? I haven't heard of cable select in my BIOS, but would that be necessary? If I use cable select then there would be no master or slave drive? The SATA drives don't have a jumper for setting them that I know of.

11-11-2005, 08:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
Viking6 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 39 OS: WIN XP	Using 3 IDE drives? My mobo supports one 40-wire cable, one 80-wire cable, and four SATA cables. Can I connect three CDRW and /or DVDRW drives by using one of the positions on the 80-wire cable and the two on the 40-wire cable without conflicting with each other? Also, I am using two of the SATA positions for my hard drives. I hope I am saying this so it can be understood.....in essence, I want one CDRW dedicated to be a packet writer - leaving the other two available for other uses.

11-11-2005, 08:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
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11-11-2005, 10:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
Viking6 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 39 OS: WIN XP	Reply One is an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mobo the other is an INTEL D875PBZ mobo. I'm not using RAID, but ithe ASUS keeps asking me to. I'm just using the 2 HDDs hooked up to SATA primary leaving the primary IDE ribbon cable unconnected at either point. I am not sure about which colors the ribbon cables have as I am blind. I build computers with my wife's help. Can you describe the colors where they are located on the cable and which cable it is? I haven't heard of cable select in my BIOS, but would that be necessary? If I use cable select then there would be no master or slave drive? The SATA drives don't have a jumper for setting them that I know of.