Setting up IDE ports and hardware

[nempo]

k, i have posted before with my problems and im getting closer and closer to finding out what is going on. This is my first time exually doing this stuff. I really don't know that may term's or name of parts. I think i might know them, but i might be wrong. Anyhow, i have a CD-Burner and DVD player. I noticed one day my CD- Burner wasnt showing up on the computer. So, i played around with it anyhow i decided it must be broke. So, today i recived a DVD/CD burner in place of this CD-Burner. So i removed the CD burner and replaced it with the DVD burner. However, just like the CD burner it wasnt loading up. So, i decided to switch the two around DVD player and the DVD burner. Now the DVD burner was working and not the dvd player. So, i then also tested my old burner and noticed that two worked. So, i thought maybe the slave IDE port was broke. However, when i put one in there and not in my other one it was also running. They all will run one by one if there's not another one connected? What's going on i don't really unstand the diff between a stnadard IDE ribbon cable and a cable select cable? Also, what's slave master and cable select? my old burner was in cable select.

[gitreel]

If you have both set as master. One will noot show up. I would have the dvdburner as master and if you are determined to have a second drive, set it to slave. On cable select, it is self-explanatory.

You really only need the dvdburner. It will read a cd, and a dvd. It can play dvd's. It will burn cd's, and dvd's. It does everything you need in one drive.

[Treebeard]

You really only need the dvdburner. It will read a cd, and a dvd. It can play dvd's. It will burn cd's, and dvd's. It does everything you need in one drive.

Yes its true you only need a dvd burner, but then there are people like me who want as much as they can get. thats why i have 3 seperate drives, cd burner, dvd burner & dvd rom.

[DVD_Ripper]

You really only need the dvdburner. It will read a cd, and a dvd. It can play dvd's. It will burn cd's, and dvd's. It does everything you need in one drive.

Yes its true you only need a dvd burner, but then there are people like me who want as much as they can get. thats why i have 3 seperate drives, cd burner, dvd burner & dvd rom.

Treebeard... I'm the same way... external DVDBurner... used only for that. DVD Rom (for ripping) and CDRW for music, data, etc.

[Treebeard]

You really only need the dvdburner. It will read a cd, and a dvd. It can play dvd's. It will burn cd's, and dvd's. It does everything you need in one drive.

Yes its true you only need a dvd burner, but then there are people like me who want as much as they can get. thats why i have 3 seperate drives, cd burner, dvd burner & dvd rom.

Treebeard... I'm the same way... external DVDBurner... used only for that. DVD Rom (for ripping) and CDRW for music, data, etc.

Mine is all internal, along with my 3 internal HD's and 3 pci cards and 1agp card. I think im gonna burn up my PSU soon.