I have a computer tower that will hold up to 4 disk drives and 2 hardrives but I dont have a motherbord that has the ports for the 4 disk drives. is there a way to hook the disk drives up with out loseing my 2 hardrives I was told that they dont make ribin cabels for 4 disk drives
2006-11-02 23:05:05 · 7 answers · asked by mikedupoy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
you have to buy an ide controller card and you will be ok
2006-11-02 23:08:03 · answer #1 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A IDE controller card costs about £10 from microdirect. Maybe you can find a cheap deal.
But first make sure.
Your mobo must have two IDE connecters.
1 can be used to connect two drives (Master and Salve)
You can connect 2 CD drives at one slot in Master slave form. If you are not sure which one to keep master just put on cable select jumper. The jumper is beside the hard disk where the IDE cable is connected.
secodn you can connect two Hard disks with other avaialable connector on borad. But you will still need a controller card to connect extra 2 hard disks.
The best option is to get a a card and only attach your boot drive to your board and let all the other drives run on the controller. Most of the controller cards have more than 2 slots so definelty you will be able to add all the drives in a tenner solution.
2006-11-03 07:22:02 · answer #2 · answered by Nomee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well are you using a mother board that has 3 places for ide cables? because if so set them up on a slave master system. if not than you would need a controller card (raid card will also work) maxtor makes many. also some larger hard drives sometimes will come with a controller card for free in the box so that might be worth a look if you are purchasing the drives new.
2006-11-03 07:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by FlyByNight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth would you want 4 disc drives?????
You stated that these are seperate from your hard drives .... I would think the availability of the 4 x 51/2 bays would be for CD-DVD Burner maybe a Zip drive ... maybe for front loading USB and Audio and perhaps a 3rd party Temperature sensor ... NOT 4 CD Roms
2006-11-03 07:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by deadkelly_1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can go to a computer/electronic store and find a PCI card that allows you to connect more disk drives and or hard drives. I found a few different models at Fry's Electronics. If you cannot find them there search Ebay they might have some listed.
2006-11-03 07:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
External hard disk is available in stores. Just make sure you have a USB 2.0 so that you won't be frustrated about the speed
2006-11-03 07:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by farisashraf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plug the extra ones to the USB and use without headache.
2006-11-03 07:08:17 · answer #7 · answered by Sanju_the_gr8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋