ATA CArd Installation Questions HELP!!

NevermoreX

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I recently bought a Promise ATA 133 controller card, and I need help on how should i hook up the hardrives and cd-rw and dvdrom
I have 3 harddrives, and 1 cd-rw, and 1 dvdrom,
how should I hook them up?
 

Amber

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you would put your HDD on the ATA card , set them up IDE 1 with a drive as master an a drive as slave
on IDE 2 the other HDD as master

then set up your drives on the mother's IDE, IDE 1 your CD Burner as master
IDE 2 your DVD as master

I have my system set up like this and it's very good