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12-06-2007, 09:35 PM
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Quick question regarding HDD and DVD drive
I recently junk-yarded an old computer of mine and came across 2 PATA DVD drives and a PATA HDD. I'm going to be building a new computer, but it unfortunately only has one IDE/PATA slot on the mobo, so I was wondering if it's possible to install one of the DVD drives and the HDD using only that one slot. The HDD would be a slave (getting a bigger SATA to be the main drive), so I didn't know if I could use the same cable to connect them both (the cable has 3 connectors, one for the motherboard, a master and a slave). I'm assuming I can't, but I'd rather not have to get a $13 adapter for a drive that I'll rarely use anyways.
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