Hey all I am fairly new to this so take it easy!
A freind of mine brought a new lite-on 32x10x48 cdrw and it had no data cable packaged with it . When he installed it in his machine he found the only IDE cable in his computer was the connected to the cdrom, the hard drive and to the primary IDE connecter. This only has two device connecters os he had to install the cdrw on its own.
What he wanted to do was have both his CDRW and CDrom installed to do on the fly copies.
Are the liteon burners suposed to come with a new data cable or does he have to go out and buy one. Then how can he tell what IDE cable to purchase i.e ata66 or 100?
What is the best configuation for this type of setup with the three devices.
Does the secondary IDE connecter have to setup in any way in the BIOS to operate or will the devices be detected automatically.
A final personal question I am in the throws of getting parts for my first build. If I get a Maxtor hard drive ata133 will i need to buy the ide cable/s to utilise the ata133 support or will they come with the new mobo such as a gigabyte 8IEXP.
TY to all
A freind of mine brought a new lite-on 32x10x48 cdrw and it had no data cable packaged with it . When he installed it in his machine he found the only IDE cable in his computer was the connected to the cdrom, the hard drive and to the primary IDE connecter. This only has two device connecters os he had to install the cdrw on its own.
What he wanted to do was have both his CDRW and CDrom installed to do on the fly copies.
Are the liteon burners suposed to come with a new data cable or does he have to go out and buy one. Then how can he tell what IDE cable to purchase i.e ata66 or 100?
What is the best configuation for this type of setup with the three devices.
Does the secondary IDE connecter have to setup in any way in the BIOS to operate or will the devices be detected automatically.
A final personal question I am in the throws of getting parts for my first build. If I get a Maxtor hard drive ata133 will i need to buy the ide cable/s to utilise the ata133 support or will they come with the new mobo such as a gigabyte 8IEXP.
TY to all
