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undefined · 12-28-2007, 05:27 PM

What do I do if have a 200GB PATA hard drive and an IDE DVD burner (Sony NEC) when installing them? I have one standard IDE cable. They both each have the same # of pin connectors that fit the IDE cable. Do I use the HD as the master and put the DVD drive as a slave?

Also, my motherboard (layout) only came with ONE SATA cable... what if I have multiple SATA devices? It has 4 SATA slots on the actual motherboard (SATA1/SATA2/SATA3/SATA4)?

12-28-2007, 05:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
undefined True Techie Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 114	Re: Adding a HD - M/S question What do I do if have a 200GB PATA hard drive and an IDE DVD burner (Sony NEC) when installing them? I have one standard IDE cable. They both each have the same # of pin connectors that fit the IDE cable. Do I use the HD as the master and put the DVD drive as a slave? Also, my motherboard (layout) only came with ONE SATA cable... what if I have multiple SATA devices? It has 4 SATA slots on the actual motherboard (SATA1/SATA2/SATA3/SATA4)? Last edited by undefined; 12-28-2007 at 07:01 PM.