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hi help needed please want to conect a 3rd drive (dvd rom) have the right ide cable but what should the jumper settings be? have tried master slave and slave but it wont reconise the 3rd drive! should i set the 3rd to cable select? (whatever that means) and do i need to adjust the bios? any advice would be great!! thanx

when you say you`re connecting a third drive, what do you mean?
are you adding a 3rd rom type drive or is it 3 drives including your HDD?

if it`s a second rom type drive, add it to your second IDE cable as slave, the first drive
on the second IDE cable should be set to master.

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no its a 3rd rom drive

why the need for three optical drives?
what is your current setup? i.e cdrom,cdrw,dvdrom?
if so why don`t you just remove the cdrom drive?


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