Hdd And Cd Drive On One Ide?

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  1. kryaxysa

    kryaxysa Well-Known Member

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    Hi.

    I just recently bought a p31 motherboard for a new computer i'm building. But, I just noticed now that i look at it that there is only one IDE input. My question is, how am i supposed to put the hard drive and cd drive on it? Do i do like a PATA thing so that one is the slave and the other is the master so that i can get them both on the same IDE? Does that work with a hard drive and cd drive, or just two hard drives or two cd drives?

    100 credits to tell me i'm wrong before i try it and tell me what to do instead.

    Thanks!
     
  2. Systema

    Systema Senior Member

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    I had the same problem two weeks ago, for some reason some new motherboards don't have more than one IDE input, so what I did was to use the same cable for HDD and CD-Rom and use the same IDE input. But when installing vista it was too slow and it didn't installed correctly. So I had to buy a new HDD ATA. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I didn't understand your question.
     
  3. kryaxysa

    kryaxysa Well-Known Member

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    so you're saying it worked when they were both on the same cable?
     
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    Yes, but I had a lot of trouble installing Windows Vista.
     
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    Logicaly Senior Member

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    You can put them both on one cable, but dude, just get a sata drive.
     
  6. xlink

    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    IDE is dead

    INTEL
    NVIDIA
    ATI/AMD
    VIA
    IBM

    and a few other all dropped support for it in their mainstream chipsets. the reason why SOME but not all boards have ONE IDE port(and not zero) is that they have an additional adding chip specifically for it because some people need it.


    and the sollution is to use the one single IDE port, buy a longer cable if need be, they're not more than $2-5


    as logic said though, SATA is the future
     

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