Easy as that?

[Shannon]

In my computer I have a 16x DVD, 48x12x48 CD-RW, 52x CD rom and a 40GB hardrive. I have a spare 4GB hardrive I want to put in to store documents and such on. Thing is, I've got no IDE cables left. The CD rom isn't working at the moment, so I though I'd take it out and put the 4gb HDD in.

Is it as simple as taking the cables out of the CD rom and plugging them into the hardrive?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Yes.

I don't know why you want all those CD/DVD drives anyway, since your 16x DVD can probably read CDs at 50x+, and you can't really tell the difference between a 48x and a 52x.

However, you should move the drives around so that the CD and DVD are on the same IDE channel, and the two hard drives are also. IDE prefers it if you keep devices with the same data rate to the same channel.

 

[Shannon]

However, you should move the drives around so that the CD and DVD are on the same IDE channel, and the two hard drives are also.

So you mean:

IDE 1 Master: 40GB HDD
IDE 1 Slave: 4GB HDD

IDE 2 Master: DVD-Rom
IDE 2 Slave: CD-RW

I don't know why you want all those CD/DVD drives anyway, since your 16x DVD can probably read CDs at 50x+, and you can't really tell the difference between a 48x and a 52x.

Neither do I. It wasn't my computer originally. I swapped my P4 IBM for my Dad's custom built computer. So ask him why he wanted all 3 CD/DVD drives...

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Shannon
So you mean:

IDE 1 Master: 40GB HDD
IDE 1 Slave: 4GB HDD

IDE 2 Master: DVD-Rom
IDE 2 Slave: CD-RW

Yes. That's how I've got mine set up. Although my Primary Slave is an 80GB drive.

Originally posted by Shannon
Neither do I. It wasn't my computer originally. I swapped my P4 IBM for my Dad's custom built computer. So ask him why he wanted all 3 CD/DVD drives...

Oh, I would. If I knew him. And I cared.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Yes. That's how I've got mine set up. Although my Primary Slave is an 80GB drive.

Shattup.