Hard drive and DVD burner on same IDE channel

The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.

In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.

Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.

Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
80-wire IDE cable?

"Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
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> The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.
>
> In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.
>
> Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.
>
> Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
> 80-wire IDE cable?


No problem at all as long as they are jumpered properly of course.

So what happened with those files on the dying hard drive?

Just curious.

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
> news:TaYQj.2179$NU2.275@news01.roc.ny...
>> The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.
>>
>> In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.
>>
>> Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.
>>
>> Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
>> 80-wire IDE cable?
>
>
> No problem at all as long as they are jumpered properly of course.
>
>
I thought I had read that putting them on the same channel would slow down
the hard drive. Is that not the case?

In article <3smdnYzdqOlqXojVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@comcast.com>, Lee M.
says...

> I thought I had read that putting them on the same channel would slow down
> the hard drive. Is that not the case?
>
Not since the mid 90's.


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"Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
news:TaYQj.2179$NU2.275@news01.roc.ny...
> The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.
>
> In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.
>
> Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.
>
> Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
> 80-wire IDE cable?

If Concerned why not purchase a SATA DVD burner

Regards

Dave

Dave wrote:
> "Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
> news:TaYQj.2179$NU2.275@news01.roc.ny...
>> The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.
>>
>> In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.
>>
>> Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.
>>
>> Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
>> 80-wire IDE cable?
>
> If Concerned why not purchase a SATA DVD burner

Trying to use as much of my old hardware as possible. But my next new
DVD burner will be SATA ...

philo wrote:
> "Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
> news:TaYQj.2179$NU2.275@news01.roc.ny...
>> The newer motherboards have only one IDE connector.
>>
>> In upgrading, I would like to use one of my old IDE/PATA hard drives.
>>
>> Of course I want to run a DVD burner too.
>>
>> Would I have problems putting the DVD and the hard drive on the same
>> 80-wire IDE cable?
>
>
> No problem at all as long as they are jumpered properly of course.

thanks