Where can i get a cable splitter

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azn712

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I have a CD- drive and a dvd drive right now. I am planning to buy a dvd burner but my IDE cable only has two connectors so i need a splitter or something like that. I have been looking for it on the internet for a quite while but couldn't find it

please help
thanks
 
An IDE cable can only have 2 connections max (IE Master and Slave).
You can buy them with only the master, but you cant do IDE with more than 2 connections per channel.
If you need more connections I suggest buying a PCI IDE card and another cable and running that to your extra drive.
The PCI IDE cards are cheap (like $10 or so) so it wont break the bank.

D.
 
how many IDE channels does your motherboard have? Most modern ones have two so you can connect four IDE drivers. Check your manual.
 
Like was said before. IDE cannot handle more than two drives per channel. End of story.
 
Even boards made several years ago had multiple IDE channels. Assuming your hard drive(s) are SATA and not on the second channel, you should be able to just buy another cable and hook up the new drive there.
 
If your other IDE channel is occupied with hard drives, you can either buy a PCI card to add extra IDE channels, or take out one of your drives.

But you really don't *need* any drives other than a DVD burner, since the burner can read DVD's and can also read CD's, and it can copy CD's/DVD's without using two drives (making temp img on hard drive).

So I recommend getting rid of one or two drives, and just using the burner instead :)
or, if your hard drive(s) are using SATA, you can buy an IDE cable for the other channel as previously stated.
 
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