SATA cable to motherboard plug

I need to understand the different between red and black cables to my
motherboard plugs.
ASUS p5L vm 1394. manual stated red plug 1 is for hard drive and red plug 2
is for data,
black plug 3 & 4 is for data devices.
Question will a DVD writer work in the red #2 plug with a red cable. Also
will it work in Black # 3 or 4 with a black cable. and will a red cable work
in place of a black cable. Or these cables inter changeable..
If some one would straighten me out on this I sure will appreciate it. I am
72 years old and haven't worked with building computers since The ide
cables. I built it with a sata hard drive on red #1 and both dvd on ide
cable, now I fine it necessary to replace one of the ide dvd with a sata dvd
so I can have the ide for another purpose.
Thanks for any help.
Boris

Thanks a lot that is just what I needed to know. I really appreciate your
reply
Boris
"BigJim" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Boris Belchoff" <> wrote in message
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>>I need to understand the different between red and black cables to my
>>motherboard plugs.
>> ASUS p5L vm 1394. manual stated red plug 1 is for hard drive and red
>> plug 2 is for data,
>> black plug 3 & 4 is for data devices.
>> Question will a DVD writer work in the red #2 plug with a red cable. Also
>> will it work in Black # 3 or 4 with a black cable. and will a red cable
>> work in place of a black cable. Or these cables inter changeable..
>> If some one would straighten me out on this I sure will appreciate it. I
>> am 72 years old and haven't worked with building computers since The ide
>> cables. I built it with a sata hard drive on red #1 and both dvd on ide
>> cable, now I fine it necessary to replace one of the ide dvd with a sata
>> dvd so I can have the ide for another purpose.
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Boris
>>
>
> all four are sata connectors. The red are channel 1 and the black are
> channel 2.
> With sata there are no jumpers to set, except on the hard drive and that
> is just for 1.5
> or 3.0 transfer speed settings. Like IDE one of the black/red connectors
> is the master and one the slave. So yes you can connect the dvd to any of
> the open plugs. The cable color means nothing except for a visual
> reference. I would put the DVD on the black primary connector.
> This is basically the same board I am using only mine is a gigabyte. I
> have HD on the primary and two dvd burners on secondary as master and
> slave.
>

Somewhere on teh intarweb "BigJim" typed:
> "Boris Belchoff" <> wrote in message
> news:splZj.10068$dh.6446@trnddc05...
>> I need to understand the different between red and black cables to my
>> motherboard plugs.
>> ASUS p5L vm 1394. manual stated red plug 1 is for hard drive and
>> red plug 2 is for data,
>> black plug 3 & 4 is for data devices.
>> Question will a DVD writer work in the red #2 plug with a red cable.
>> Also will it work in Black # 3 or 4 with a black cable. and will a
>> red cable work in place of a black cable. Or these cables inter
>> changeable.. If some one would straighten me out on this I sure will
>> appreciate
>> it. I am 72 years old and haven't worked with building computers since
>> The ide cables. I built it with a sata hard drive on red #1
>> and both dvd on ide cable, now I fine it necessary to replace one of
>> the ide dvd with a sata dvd so I can have the ide for another
>> purpose. Thanks for any help.
>> Boris
>>
>
> all four are sata connectors. The red are channel 1 and the black are
> channel 2.
> With sata there are no jumpers to set, except on the hard drive and
> that is just for 1.5
> or 3.0 transfer speed settings. Like IDE one of the black/red
> connectors is the master and one the slave. So yes you can connect
> the dvd to any of the open plugs. The cable color means nothing
> except for a visual reference. I would put the DVD on the black
> primary connector. This is basically the same board I am using only mine
> is a gigabyte.
> I have HD on the primary and two dvd burners on secondary as master
> and slave.

I thought that, if you want to boot from the device, it had to be on a
'master' (red) connector? If that's right then surely the OP would probably
be better off connecting his optical drive to a red connector?
--
Shaun.

I understand what you are saying. I have a red cable on hand so I will
probley put it on red #2 just to be safe.
Thank you for your reply
Boris
"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Somewhere on teh intarweb "BigJim" typed:
>> "Boris Belchoff" <> wrote in message
>> news:splZj.10068$dh.6446@trnddc05...
>>> I need to understand the different between red and black cables to my
>>> motherboard plugs.
>>> ASUS p5L vm 1394. manual stated red plug 1 is for hard drive and
>>> red plug 2 is for data,
>>> black plug 3 & 4 is for data devices.
>>> Question will a DVD writer work in the red #2 plug with a red cable.
>>> Also will it work in Black # 3 or 4 with a black cable. and will a
>>> red cable work in place of a black cable. Or these cables inter
>>> changeable.. If some one would straighten me out on this I sure will
>>> appreciate
>>> it. I am 72 years old and haven't worked with building computers since
>>> The ide cables. I built it with a sata hard drive on red #1
>>> and both dvd on ide cable, now I fine it necessary to replace one of
>>> the ide dvd with a sata dvd so I can have the ide for another
>>> purpose. Thanks for any help.
>>> Boris
>>>
>>
>> all four are sata connectors. The red are channel 1 and the black are
>> channel 2.
>> With sata there are no jumpers to set, except on the hard drive and
>> that is just for 1.5
>> or 3.0 transfer speed settings. Like IDE one of the black/red
>> connectors is the master and one the slave. So yes you can connect
>> the dvd to any of the open plugs. The cable color means nothing
>> except for a visual reference. I would put the DVD on the black
>> primary connector. This is basically the same board I am using only mine
>> is a gigabyte.
>> I have HD on the primary and two dvd burners on secondary as master
>> and slave.
>
> I thought that, if you want to boot from the device, it had to be on a
> 'master' (red) connector? If that's right then surely the OP would
> probably be better off connecting his optical drive to a red connector?
> --
> Shaun.
>

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Boris Belchoff" typed:
> I understand what you are saying. I have a red cable on hand so I
> will probley put it on red #2 just to be safe.

Good move. It's what I would do. Have all potential boot devices on
connectors designated"master".

> Thank you for your reply

You're welcome.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

> Boris
> "~misfit~" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "BigJim" typed:
>>> "Boris Belchoff" <> wrote in message
>>> news:splZj.10068$dh.6446@trnddc05...
>>>> I need to understand the different between red and black cables to
>>>> my motherboard plugs.
>>>> ASUS p5L vm 1394. manual stated red plug 1 is for hard drive and
>>>> red plug 2 is for data,
>>>> black plug 3 & 4 is for data devices.
>>>> Question will a DVD writer work in the red #2 plug with a red
>>>> cable. Also will it work in Black # 3 or 4 with a black cable. and
>>>> will a red cable work in place of a black cable. Or these cables
>>>> inter changeable.. If some one would straighten me out on this I
>>>> sure will appreciate
>>>> it. I am 72 years old and haven't worked with building computers
>>>> since The ide cables. I built it with a sata hard drive on red #1
>>>> and both dvd on ide cable, now I fine it necessary to replace one
>>>> of the ide dvd with a sata dvd so I can have the ide for another
>>>> purpose. Thanks for any help.
>>>> Boris
>>>>
>>>
>>> all four are sata connectors. The red are channel 1 and the black
>>> are channel 2.
>>> With sata there are no jumpers to set, except on the hard drive and
>>> that is just for 1.5
>>> or 3.0 transfer speed settings. Like IDE one of the black/red
>>> connectors is the master and one the slave. So yes you can connect
>>> the dvd to any of the open plugs. The cable color means nothing
>>> except for a visual reference. I would put the DVD on the black
>>> primary connector. This is basically the same board I am using only
>>> mine is a gigabyte.
>>> I have HD on the primary and two dvd burners on secondary as master
>>> and slave.
>>
>> I thought that, if you want to boot from the device, it had to be on
>> a 'master' (red) connector? If that's right then surely the OP would
>> probably be better off connecting his optical drive to a red
>> connector? --
>> Shaun.