EIDE Cables

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wat if u wanted 2 connect 3-5 drives [CD-RW-DVD-RAM-HDD, etc.] and u only had a EIDE cable with 2 outputs? wer can u buy these cables. or can u make ur own? I NEED HELP? Tanks 4 da help

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make your own? wouldn't be worth the trouble. IDE is capable of 4 devices, 2 per channel. you should have primary IDE and secondary IDE.
 
you can buy an expensive mobo with 3 IDE connectors, this way you can attach up to 6 IDE devices.

Or you can buy some PCI cards with IDE connectors and add as many devices as you want (don't know if there's a limit)
 
yes you can have cards, however that doesn't change the fact that you can not have more than 2 devices per IDE channel.
 
yes..a controller card ads some IDE channels to your pc, but I think your mobo needs to support them if you want to boot from them
 
4 instance... wat if u had 5- 5.5in. bays filled and 2 floppies... and 4 hdd. how could u connect all those drives 2 the mobo & 2 the PS
 
use the PCI card as they said for the extra IDE cables, and for the PS, if u dont have enough plugs, buy some Y splitter, that's it that's all
 
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