What cables do you get?

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spikey101

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I have been lookin at the stuff i got with my motherboard (gigabyte GA-K8NF-9) and i have noticed from what i can see i have only got the dvd drives ide cable and the floppy ide cable and also the others but what concerns me is that i dont seem to have a hard drive ide cable does it come with the motherboard or do i have to have it with the hard drive?

Its an samsung OEM hard drive by the way

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boards actually come with the fdd cable, a 2 device ide cable (one that connects to your 1 disc drive and the other connector to the hdd) and of course sata cables if the board supports it. if you have 2 disc drives and your hdd, you will just have to buy another single ide cable
 
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boards actually come with the fdd cable, a 2 device ide cable (one that connects to your 1 disc drive and the other connector to the hdd)
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depends on what board you buy and how kind the company is.
 
well, from my experience, ive had intel, asus, msi, gigabyte, biostar and abit... all came with the cables i specified, but im sure youre correct
 
well the 2 motherboards i have came with 2 ide, and i picked 5 random motherboards on newegg, 4 of them had 2 in the pic and 1 only had 1.
 
would the case come with any IDE cables because i got 2 dvd drives and i neeed the other cable then.

P.S can you run one dvd drive and a hdd on the same bus? i thought you had 2 dvd drives on IDE 2 and the hdd on IDE 1.


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the case wont come with any ide cables. im not sure if you can run them on the same ribbon, i dont think your supposed to though.
 
My brother said that if i run the dvd-rom as slave and the hdd as master it will work am i correct? He said it will decrease the chance of buffer underrun aswell i think.

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Another question :D (saves making another thread) how can you tell the differance between a 40 conductor IDE cable and a 80 conductor IDE cable?

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Connecting a cdrom and a hard drive on the same cable is a no-no. When you connect items of a different speed on one cable then all devices on that cable will have the speed of the slower item, so the hard drive will only be as fast as the cdrom drive. Keep hard drives on primary ide and keep cd roms on secondary ide.
 
would the case come with any IDE cables because i got 2 dvd drives and i neeed the other cable then.
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Unlikely. They are cheap anyways ... and you can probably get them for free from small computer stores

P.S can you run one dvd drive and a hdd on the same bus? i thought you had 2 dvd drives on IDE 2 and the hdd on IDE 1.
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You can run them both on the same cable if needed

P.S can you run one dvd drive and a hdd on the same bus? i thought you had 2 dvd drives on IDE 2 and the hdd on IDE 1.
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Odds are it will increase the chances of buffer underrun but thats only from an absolute technical perspective ... buffer underruns have essentially been eliminated circa 1996

how can you tell the differance between a 40 conductor IDE cable and a 80 conductor IDE cable?
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Look at it or touch it... the 40pin one will feel like the floppy one ,, the 80conductor one will be a lot smoother

Connecting a cdrom and a hard drive on the same cable is a no-no. When you connect items of a different speed on one cable then all devices on that cable will have the speed of the slower item,
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Only if you're accessing them simultaneously.
 
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