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Installing a Internal Zip Drive

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MrCodeDude

Lifer
Yes, I know it should be plug and play, but I'm just now realizing that I can't put it anywhere, even though it has a docking bay for it 🙁
There are 2 IDE sltos and one Floppy Slot, yet it has 3 docking bays for CD-R's and drives like that and 2 docking bays for floppy drives and junk.

The First IDE cable plugs into the motherboard, my hard-drive and my Plextor 12/10/32A.
The Second IDE cable plugs into the motherboard, the Phillips CD-RW drive and the DVD-Drive.
The Floppy cable plugs into the motherboard and into the floppy drive.

Am I missing something or is there a way I can wire an Internal Zip Drive under my A:\? There's a docking bay and an open power supply cable, yet no slot for it though 🙁

I'm a Hardware n00b and am stupified on this subject.
-- mrcodedude
 
It depends on how many devices you have on your motherboard ...

If you have only two ide cables, you can only have a total of four devices (one hard drive, one plextor, one phillips, one dvd). So, your IDE's are full. The Zip drive is an IDE device, right? Internal Zips are usually IDE (sometimes SCSI), so you'll need to get rid of a CD/DVD/Hard Drive, or get an extra controller. I don't think that there is any way to connect it to a floppy cable.
 
if you have an open pci slot you can get a ide controller.

thats why i made sure my mobo had onboard raid...i just run it as ide and i have 8 device max. plus i have a scsi lvd chain😉

booty
 
First of all, let's clear something up. It's not a "docking bay", it's a "drive bay". Also, IDE drives are not "plug and play" - you are confusing it with PCI and USB devices. A Zip drive is an IDE drive and cannot be "wired" under anything different (such as to the floppy drive controller or the SCSI controller).

You basically don't have enough "connectors" for another IDE device. You have 2 IDE channels, and each one can support up to 2 devices (master and slave). You already have 4 IDE drives, so you're out of luck. I would get dir of the other CDRW drive, why do you need 2 of them anyway?

If you use the "Cable Select" jumper on the drive, you will be able to do it in a somewhat "plug-and-play" manner, but I would set the jumper to whatever mode the drive you're replacing was set to. If that CDRW was Slave, I would set the Zip drive as Slave.

You can buy an additional IDE controller, they are very cheap. You can probably get one for around $15-20 since it doesn't need to be anything faster than ATA-33. You can find an ATA-100 controller for just a few dollars more - www.PriceWatch.com

Good luck.
 
Well, I can personally vouch for the Promise range of ATA controllers. Really stable little fellas IMHO.
 
Yeah, I'll probably end up resorting to taking out the Phillips CD-RW and give it to my mom.. If they sell IDE Controllers at Fry's, I'll buy one there, if not, I guess I'll be one CD-RW short then..
-- mrcodedude
 
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