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3 IDE ROM's

Apr 7, 2004 6:46PM PDT

hi

jus brought a DVD writer and a DVD rom to compliment my CD writer...... ive got no idea how to get BIOS to recognize all 3 drives. can have 1 master and 1 slave on the "Secondary" drives but no extra. i already have 2 hard drives as the master and slave "Primary" drives

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Install An IDE Controller Card
Apr 7, 2004 9:44PM PDT

And connect to it.

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Re:3 IDE ROM's
Apr 7, 2004 10:36PM PDT

The thing is, a DVD writer can write CD's as well as DVD's, all you need to do is pull the CD writer, it's redundant.