IDE cable that supports 3 burners?

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rox1co

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is there such a thing? if so link me plz, if not, how do i go about supporting 3 burners?

also, i saw some round cables - could i use those? or am i stuck with the ugly flat ones
 
Its not a limitation of cable, its a limitation of the IDE controller. In order to run an extra drive if both controllers are full (i.e.already have 4 devices) you would need to buy an extra IDE controller. They are cheap and will plug into any open IDE slot.
 
A single IDE bus only supports two devices bro. You simply cannot do it. Master and Slave only.
 
i see in my bios that there is a

Primary Master
Primary Slave

Secondary Master
Secondary Slave

can't i have have 2 on the primary making it master/slave combo with the third one in the secondary?
 
How many hard drives are you running?

Does your Mobo have SATA connections?

IDE only supports 2 drives per header as stated earlier. Master and Slave on primary header, Master and Slave on Secondary header.

If you've got one HDD you can do

PRI: HDD-Master, Burner 1 - Slave

SEC: Burner 2-Master, Burner 3-Slave

Or if you have SATA get a sata hard drive and you can have up to 4 burners connected to IDE.
 
i'll be running 2 SATAII HDD in a month or so

and i just read my user guide book and i'm good to go :)

thanks guys
 
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