You should make the DVD a slave to the CDROM, it's not usually wise to have
anything other than another hard drive as the slave to the master hard drive
(hard drives on one IDE and CD drives on the other IDE).  Although, I have
been able to put internal Zip drives on the same IDE as the hard drive and
not had any problems.

Also,I have had problems with the Plextor manager software and the ability
to use CD-RW disks, so I leave the Plextor software off of the system and
just use the Easy CD Creator.

----- Original Message -----
From: "bobwarasila" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: DVD - CD-RW - HDD connections


> I'm moving along on my DIY project and should get around to installing the
> mobo this week.  I've physically installed all the drives in the following
> configuration starting at the top bay:
>
> ASUS - DVD (ATA/100)  There are no specs in the manual but when I bought
it
> they said ATA100
> Plextorwriter 40/12/40A
> -SPACE-
> FDD
> -SPACE-
> HDD  WD800 Caviar ATA133
>
> I've set the DVD as slave and plan to connect it with the HDD as master on
> IDE1.
> The CD-RW will be a master on IDE2.
>
> Are these connections and spacing the best?
>
> Bob Warasila
> [log in to unmask]  (home)
> [log in to unmask]   (work)
>
>             Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
>                     Digest mode - visit our web site:
>                    http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml
>

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
                   http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml