There's no reason at all not to put both devices on the IDE ribbon cable. The mobo's IDE controller is designed to give equal priority to data to/from both devices. There's no speed hit at all. Just remember to set the jumpers on the devices if necessary - usually one Master and one Slave. The general rule is to have the Hard Drive as master. Also, if your ribbon cable has colored connectors (one black and one white - the blue goes onto the mobo) usually the black one will be for main hard drive, and the white for DVD. With this ribbon you can try setting both devices to "Cable Select" instead of master/slave - but I think either way will work fine.
Good luck, Donk On 11/22/2010 1:25 PM, kevin19_89 wrote: > can i plug an ide hard drive and ide dvd burner to same data cable or will it > give me problems? > if not will it slow the hard drive down a lot? > i got ide dvd burner and sata hard drive and my sata hard drive is going out. > i thought i ordered an adapter that plugs the sata cables to it and i plug > ide to other side and converts it but it goes on the sata hard drive and > converts it to IDE. i got a few choices here and trying to make it cheapest: > > put ide hard drive and dvd burner on same data cable > buy another sata hard drive (but i just got a brand new ide hard drive less > than a year old > buy sata dvd burner > > what would yall advise for me to do? i want the cheapest way that wont affect > my system performance much > rahther just put hard drive and dvd burner on same cable but its used for > some gaming > > Note: i am using xp going to vista soon > > > > ------------------------------------ > > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please > feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post > personal issues directly to the group. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to > [email protected] > > Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3253 - Release Date: 11/12/10 > 10:40:00 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
