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Extend an IDE cable with another?

Johnny Bitte · 2007-05-27 11:21:14

Well thats my question can you join one IDE cable on to another to extend it? I ask because I have only on IDE port on my mainboard and have 1 IDE HD and two IDE DVD drives. Any suggestions on a way around this would be great.

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27-05-2007 12:21pm

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Johnny Bitte

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Well thats my question can you join one IDE cable on to another to extend it?

I ask because I have only on IDE port on my mainboard and have 1 IDE HD and two IDE DVD drives.

Any suggestions on a way around this would be great.

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#2 27-05-2007 12:25pm
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IDE supports only 2 drives per channel

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#3 27-05-2007 2:43pm
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This:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=110632

Will give you 2 more ide chans, so upto 4 hdds or 4 optical drives.

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