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Evlich
01-27-02, 03:22 PM
Hello, I am working on putting together a computer and I have several drives, but I don't know what the best way to connect them would be. Here is what I have:
1 CD-RW drive
1 DVD-CD drive
1 Hard drive
My mother board has 4 IDE slots, and it has a jumper that you can enbable RAID on 3 & 4 and a setting where it is disabled on those two. What would be my best bet for the most stable configuation for this. Thanks a lot.
~evlich

eh?
01-27-02, 03:28 PM
disable raid and put the harddrive on the primary IDE and set it as master. Then take another ribbon and connect it to the 2 cdrom drives then i set my dvd as master and the cdrw as salve and them plug them into the secondary IDE slot.
Put the harddrive on its own ribbon because the cdrom runs slower than the hardrive would.

WeaponX
01-27-02, 07:54 PM
Check to see if your CD-RW needs to be primary or not since some will not work in slave. Otherwise, do drdingo21 said :p

Dissolved
01-27-02, 08:44 PM
also make sure you use the ide plugs, not the raid ones..