Re: Which goes on a PCI Controller Card? A DVD-Rom Drive, or a Zip Drive?

Ok this going to sound like an odd question, but believe, me it is not.

What color are the connections on the PCI card and the motherboard.

I will be willing to bet that IDE 1 is Blue, IDE 2 is black and the PCI
controller is Blue.

I ask, because there are different speed connections, and both my DVD
writers prefer the faster connection.

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"Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>I have 2 HDD's hooked up to a PCI card controller, and I have lost my HDD
>LED
> lights because of it and I have to hit F-Lock & F1 to get to the boot
> menues
> after the computer beeps twice (on a Dell Dimension 4300) when it can't
> find a
> hard drive on the IDE #1 chain. I have my new DVD Burner hooked up on the
> end of
> a cable and a Zip Drive hooked up in the middle of the cable to IDE #1. I
> also
> have a DVD-Rom Drive hooked up to IDE #2.
>
> I want to put the 2 HDD's back onto IDE #1 so the HDD LED's work when
> there is
> hard drive activity. The DVD burner made the LED lights work when playing
> back a
> DVD, and it seemed to change intensity by the volume of the sound being
> played.
> So it seems IDE #1 is the only place to get the LED lights to work.
>
> So should I have the DVD Burner and the Zip Drive hooked up to IDE #2 and
> the
> DVD-Rom hooked up to the PCI Controller card, or should I have the to DVD
> Drives
> hooked up to IDE # 2 and the Zip Drive hooked up to the PCI card? I prefer
> to
> keep the Zip Drive plugged into something for storing files with long file
> names.
>
>


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