new system problems?

[Spud5437]

Hey I just upgraded my system and everything is going 100% apart from the fact that I cant have anymore than 1 drive per IDE cable. Dose anyone know why this might be? The motherboard I have is Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 Athlon64/64 FX Socket-939

 

[TRDCorolla1]

You should be able to connect 2 x ATA 133 IDE ports up to 4 Devices. I checked your mobo specs. Does your cable have a master and slave connector? Check BIOS and auto detect your IDE channels to see what happens.

 

[Spud5437]

ok will try dat now

 

[Spud5437]

i done the auto detect ide drive and will detect both dvd drive aslong as they are on the same cable. no matter which i put on with the hard drive it stops detecting the hard drive?? nero says that both the DVD reader and writer should not be on the same bus. any idea's?

 

[Samm]

Nero tells you to separate the optical drives because the data transfer rate is better between two IDE controllers than it is between 2 drives on a single controller.

However, judging by your pc specs, I don't see this being a problem unless you are trying to burn at stupid speeds.

Also, this only applies to on-the-fly burning so if you were to create an image on the hard drive first then burn it, you won't have a problem.

 

[Spud5437]

thanks very much, i was tryin to use on-the-fly but will change it now