running 3 cd/dvd drives

I want to have 3 drives running in my computer, a DVD, DVD-RW and
CD-RW. Don';t ask as to why I have to have this setup, i just want to.
Thing is, i Have just enough power cords from the power unit to run my
3 drives, my floppy and my HDD, but not enough ribbon cables from the
motherboard. one ribbon goes only to the floppy, one goes to two of my
current cd drives and the final goes to my hdd (this last one has a
spare plug bit, but no matter how hard i try, i can't make it reach).
Can i get an extension for the final HDD plug bit, would this even
work properly if I did? Is there a doubler unit of some kind i can use
to double up a plug? On a different note...what are the jumper
settings for a amd 2100+ processor and an amd 2500+ processor?

Thanks for your future input (if there is any....)

Ed

Buy a Y splitter cable for power; this will plug into an existing power cable and give you one more power plug. You can buy a longer ribbon cable to reach a drive anywhere in your case. The best configuration would be to get a PCI expansion card, e.g. Promise ATA adapter, for your hard drives and put the optical drives on the onboard IDE ports.

Edward wrote:
>
> I want to have 3 drives running in my computer, a DVD, DVD-RW and
> CD-RW. Don';t ask as to why I have to have this setup, i just want to.
> Thing is, i Have just enough power cords from the power unit to run my
> 3 drives, my floppy and my HDD, but not enough ribbon cables from the
> motherboard. one ribbon goes only to the floppy, one goes to two of my
> current cd drives and the final goes to my hdd (this last one has a
> spare plug bit, but no matter how hard i try, i can't make it reach).
> Can i get an extension for the final HDD plug bit, would this even
> work properly if I did? Is there a doubler unit of some kind i can use
> to double up a plug? On a different note...what are the jumper
> settings for a amd 2100+ processor and an amd 2500+ processor?
>
> Thanks for your future input (if there is any....)
>
> Ed

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Running an optical drive and your harddrive off of the same IDE controller
will greatly slow down the data transfer rate of the harddrive. You're SURE
you need 3 optical drives that badly?

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"Edward" <> wrote in message
news: m...
> I want to have 3 drives running in my computer, a DVD, DVD-RW and
> CD-RW. Don';t ask as to why I have to have this setup, i just want to.
> Thing is, i Have just enough power cords from the power unit to run my
> 3 drives, my floppy and my HDD, but not enough ribbon cables from the
> motherboard. one ribbon goes only to the floppy, one goes to two of my
> current cd drives and the final goes to my hdd (this last one has a
> spare plug bit, but no matter how hard i try, i can't make it reach).
> Can i get an extension for the final HDD plug bit, would this even
> work properly if I did? Is there a doubler unit of some kind i can use
> to double up a plug? On a different note...what are the jumper
> settings for a amd 2100+ processor and an amd 2500+ processor?
>
> Thanks for your future input (if there is any....)
>
> Ed

ok, ive decided to just have two optical drives. I want to give up my
dvd drive, as its not vfery useful and just have a cdrw and dvdrw
drives. Can i copy a dvd if only one of my drives will actually read a
dvd disk....or do i need two drives?

Ed

You can copy a DVD with one drive. Most software will read a DVD and create an image which you can then burn to a blank DVD.

Edward wrote:
>
> ok, ive decided to just have two optical drives. I want to give up my
> dvd drive, as its not vfery useful and just have a cdrw and dvdrw
> drives. Can i copy a dvd if only one of my drives will actually read a
> dvd disk....or do i need two drives?
>
> Ed

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

ah, ok thanks.