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Old 06-15-2004, 11:31 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Ninti the Mad
OOPS MY BAD

I was thinking of more than one thing when I made this topic.

I MEANT CD Drives.

SORRY
Ok Ninta, let's start from the cabling. You have a flat cable with two conections on one end and a single on the other. Hook the single end to your secondary IDE port on the motherboard making sure the red strip on the cable is on the #1 side of the port.

On the double sided the slave CD drive goes on the lower connector and the Master goes on the end connector.

When you power up press Delete to go into your CMOS. Generally in the first section of the CMOS there are settings for date, time etc. and your drives.
On the secondary part set it to auto detect your secondary drives.(the CD drives)

his esc, save changes and see if your OS detects them.

Depending on your OS (if it's 98 or ME) you may have to use the install disc that came with the Drives to create settings in your config.sys and the autoexec.bat files.

hope this helps.
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