Re: Harddrive Delima

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Ron

There should be three connections on an IDE cable.. one end plugs into the
board, the other end plugs into the master drive, and the one in the middle
plugs into the slave.. you should have a cable like this on both IDE 0 and
IDE 1.. in this way, you can connect four IDE devices to your computer..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Ron" <ronjon2@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Mike
>
> I don't have a cable to run to the CD/DVD drives; I used that connection
> on the MB for seperate HD's. I am unable to get anything to operate off
> the ATA card.
>
> Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Ron
>>
>> You have to change the jumper on the back of the CD drive to slave now..
>> remember, one master and one slave per cable..
>>


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