You're going to have to have a cable that jumps from the HDD way at the bottom all the way past everything in between to the DVD at the top. Why not have the DVD be a slave to the CD-RW on IDE1, and have the HDD be a solo on IDE0, which would leave you the option of having a second hard drive or something else on the same channel.

>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?
>
>


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