Z
zark
i am a newbie with computers, so the following discourse might seem a
bit redundant and i know just enough to get into trouble
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i have 2 western digital 40 gig hard drives and 2 cd burners. in my
old mother board they connected to the primary and secondary IDE
sockets in pairs. yet, in the p5gd2 premium
(see http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket775/p5gd2-p/overview.HTM
) motherboard there is only one IDE socket (a blue 40 pin socket
located on the bottom edge of the mobo).
i can connect the two hard drives to the IDE socket, but then how do i
connect the 2 cd burners to the mother board?
i have heard that the hard drives might be able to connect to the mobo
through the pci sockets with a special card which would free up the
IDE for the burners, but would the computer be able to boot up in this
configuration?
the mobo package came with a hdd cable and a cdrom cable- why supply
both if there is but the one IDE socket? or can the red sec raid_1
sockets be used for the hard drives ?
the specification
( see http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P5GD2 Premium&langs=09 )
describes the storage as having an intel southbridge supporting 1 x
ultra dma and a ITE 8212fIDE raid controller supporting 2 x ultra
dma. my interpretation of this is that the intel southbridge works
with the blue IDE connector "PRI_IDE1" and raid controller
communicates with the two red sockets PRI_RAID1 and SEC_RAID1 (see
lowermost of the figure . my reasoning is that while the two red
sockets are for RAID, they nevertheless could support the cd burners .
would then the total of 3 dma sockets support a total of 6 devices on
three cables (both hard drives or cd burners)? can the computer only
boot up via the primary IDE cable with the hard drive on the master?
to reiterate (please be patient) how do i get 2 hard drives and 2 cd
burners to connect to this mobo when there is only one primary ide
socket.
please correct me and discuss.
bit redundant and i know just enough to get into trouble
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i have 2 western digital 40 gig hard drives and 2 cd burners. in my
old mother board they connected to the primary and secondary IDE
sockets in pairs. yet, in the p5gd2 premium
(see http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket775/p5gd2-p/overview.HTM
) motherboard there is only one IDE socket (a blue 40 pin socket
located on the bottom edge of the mobo).
i can connect the two hard drives to the IDE socket, but then how do i
connect the 2 cd burners to the mother board?
i have heard that the hard drives might be able to connect to the mobo
through the pci sockets with a special card which would free up the
IDE for the burners, but would the computer be able to boot up in this
configuration?
the mobo package came with a hdd cable and a cdrom cable- why supply
both if there is but the one IDE socket? or can the red sec raid_1
sockets be used for the hard drives ?
the specification
( see http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P5GD2 Premium&langs=09 )
describes the storage as having an intel southbridge supporting 1 x
ultra dma and a ITE 8212fIDE raid controller supporting 2 x ultra
dma. my interpretation of this is that the intel southbridge works
with the blue IDE connector "PRI_IDE1" and raid controller
communicates with the two red sockets PRI_RAID1 and SEC_RAID1 (see
lowermost of the figure . my reasoning is that while the two red
sockets are for RAID, they nevertheless could support the cd burners .
would then the total of 3 dma sockets support a total of 6 devices on
three cables (both hard drives or cd burners)? can the computer only
boot up via the primary IDE cable with the hard drive on the master?
to reiterate (please be patient) how do i get 2 hard drives and 2 cd
burners to connect to this mobo when there is only one primary ide
socket.
please correct me and discuss.