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08-13-2006, 08:50 PM
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New Motherboard, Only has Primary IDE.
My old motherboard had a Primary and Secondary IDE, which I could run a CD-ROM, CD-RW, and 2 HDD's. My new one only has a Primary IDE. I plan on getting a DVD-RW drive, and I allready bought a new SATA HDD (250GB, 16MB Cache). I know the SATA HDD has made my old 2 HDD's (50GB total), obsolete. And a new DVD-RW would make one of my CD drives pointless. But I would like to know:
Can a Primary IDE connection support more than 2 devices on a special ribbon? Do newer Optical Drives have SATA interfaces? Can I run, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-RW, 30GB HDD, and a 20GB HHD all on IDE? Is there a PCI, PCI-E x1 card with and IDE interface that I would have to buy?
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