Re: IDE Ribbon Cable help
You can only connect 2 drives to IDE cable (Master and slave).
Most motherboards have 2 IDE connectors so 2 cables can support up to 4 devices. The problem is that optical drives also use them.
If you motherboard has SATA then you can use that.
You can also use a USB2 external housing.
Lastly, you can add a PCI card that can add more expansion capabilities to your system.
What motherboard do you have?
Re: IDE Ribbon Cable help
Most MB have 2 IDE connectors (each connector can handle 2 devices each for a total of 4 devices). Your are NOT going to find an IDE cable with 3 or 4 connections because there is no such animal.
Other solutions:
SATA Drives
USB external drives (you can daisy chain these up to 128 times)
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Re: IDE Ribbon Cable help
Each IDE connector can have 2 devices. A master and a slave. Most mobo's have 2 ide channels, so you can have 4 hard-drives, so long as you don't want any optical drives.
You might want to consider a SATA drive, or connecting an external drive via USB.
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Thanks for the info
I've got a KM2MCOMBO-L ~ a bit outdated now :(
I like the sound of the PCI card for expansion, did not know they did one.
ebuyer have a caddy @ £3.99, looks okIDE Caddy With 2 Fan
I'm sure they would work on the PCI expansion
I'm a bit unsure about USB2 for an external drive, compared to the PCI card idea, Will see if I can get some details on transfer speeds first.
SATA Drives: don't know if that would work on my PC, unknown if I could convert, I've seen the New Maxline Pro 500GB with 16 MB Cache, good reports.
Much appreciated
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External Serial ATA 1+1 Port PCI Adapter - ebuyer @ £12.04 PCI Adapter
This would be a great upgrade for my PC at a low cost,
and would work well I hope with the Ebuyer Caddy + sata drive for each bay in the PC, and would be handy so I can hot swap if need.
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It's just because you're not French.
We seem to terrify them...
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Anything terrifies the French lol...
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Hey Duff...how's the RAID array working out?
Re: IDE Ribbon Cable help