Third Drive...

[Fit3 42 Mor12ow]

Is there anyone who can tell me what i need to hook up my third drive.. i dont think i have all the wires. so if sumone could help out that would be great.. thanks..

 

[Adabiviak]

What kind of drive is it?

 

[Fit3 42 Mor12ow]

i have a dvd-rom/cd burner, a cd-rom and now i just bought a dvd burner.. but i only have 2 of them working right now because i dont think i have enough wires to get all 3 going at 1 time..

 

[Asus]

You should have 2 IDE controllers on your board. Each IDE ribbon cable can have a master and a slave Drive (2 devices max per cable). If you already have 4 drives total, harddrives and CD/DVD drives, then the easiest thing to do is take a CD drive out and put the new one in to replace it.

If you want to keep all the drives then you need to buy an IDE controller PCI card.

 

[psyno]

You should have 2 IDE controllers on your board...

Erm.. Some motherboards have 2 disk controllers, but more typically they have just 1. Controllers do tend to have 2 channels, though.

How many hard drives do you have and where are they attached? You should avoid putting a burner and your hard drive on the same channel. If possible, you should also avoid putting both burners on the same channel. You won't be able to do both if you have a hard drive attached to that controller.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Why the hell do you need 4 drives. just take out an obselete drive (CD drive), and keep in storage incase something bad happens to the others.

I only have one DVD/CD burner combo and two HDD (one 40 and the other 120)

 

[Fit3 42 Mor12ow]

yah thats what im doing right now..

 

[Cole]

You shoulda just got an External Drive(One that connects by USB).

I have 3 cd\dvd rom drives this way.

 

[sinkoman]

yah thats what im doing right now..

No no no.

Take that cd drive, and put it back in.

A great majority of motherboards cannot boot up from a DVD drive, which means that if you need to do a clean install of windows, you need to take the cd drive, put it back into your case, and then hook it back up.

I'd say slave it. Unless you've also got two ide hdds...

 

[holydeadpenguins]

No no no.

Take that cd drive, and put it back in.

A great majority of motherboards cannot boot up from a DVD drive, which means that if you need to do a clean install of windows, you need to take the cd drive, put it back into your case, and then hook it back up.

I'd say slave it. Unless you've also got two ide hdds...

All my computers have successfully booted from dvd drives. From my computer in 1999 (dvd drives cost over 180 dollars back then) to the one i have now.

 

[sinkoman]

All my computers have successfully booted from dvd drives. From my computer in 1999 (dvd drives cost over 180 dollars back then) to the one i have now.

Hmm, I should try booting from MY dvd drive.

I know my bios recognizes it, so maybe...

Of course, all opticals would probably be recognized by the bios though

 

[gweedodogg69]

I have one CD/DVD burner and 4 WD Raptor SATA drives

 

[sinkoman]

I have one CD/DVD burner and 4 WD Raptor SATA drives

It's in your sig, stop boasting it.