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More IDE slots?

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DashK

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My motherboard has a primary and secondary IDE connections on it, how would I expand this? I'm installing a new PC, with 2 hard drives, master and slave on the primary, and a CD rom and burner as master and slave on the secondary, but I also want to install a DVD drive, but there are no more connections, how do you make room for more devices? Since i'm unfamiliar with doing this.

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Hey Dash....depending on your system of course, if you have any PCI slots open, check out a Promise ATA100 controller PCI card, that way you'd be able to run your hard drives off the controller card and your other ata devices off of your mobo....you can usually get these pretty cheap, Newegg.com has them for 23.00...link.
In case your interested here's the Promise card specs and info in .PDF specs.
 
Why would you want a standard CD-Rom in addition to a DVD? Anyway, you may want to consider running your burner on a different IDE chain then an optical drive to allow direct CD to CD copies.
 
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