IDE Cable

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  1. redice

    redice Regular member

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    i have two ide cables on my motherboard that are being used. one holds a dvd-rom drive and a dvd-burner and the other a harddrive.now heres my question i have another dvd burner that i would like to install in the tower with the others do they make a ide cable with Connectors on it? so i can hook up all 3 drives to one cable.
     
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    can only put 2 drives on each cable as 1 is master & other is slave. can get an external 5.25" usb case to use for the drive.
     
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    @ddp

    how about if i was to get a sata harddrive then would i be able to use my slave ide cable for the other dvd drive?
     
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    or attach the burner to the hd cable as slave
     
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    o ok thanks
     

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