If your sound card has an IDE port on it (a lot do) and you used the
specific sound card's drivers, you can connect your CD rom to it and free
up one of the other connectors for your Zip drive.  My son's computer is
set up this way. Just look at the sound card manual to see if it has
one.  None of the other devices will work on the sound card IDE though so
don't even try to connect the CDRW or hard drive to it.

Doug

At 2/9/01 01:36 PM, CAL wrote:
>I am going to try to explain this so you can understand it, but remember I
>am not a computer builder.  I recently installed a CD-RW on my computer.  I
>have a Dell 266, 64MB, 6.4 Gig, with a 128MB of Ram and a second 128 of Ram
>and a  second internal hard drive (the last two added for my graphics).
>
>I have a CD rom, Zip drive, and diskette and now the CD-RW.  I do not have
>enough plugs in the mother board to plug them all in.  I had to leave out my
>Zip drive, which I do not need after I get my data from it to the CD's, but
>right now I would like to get it running.  Now the tape is going from my
>CD-ROM to CD-RW to the diskette then to the motherboard.  Is there either a
>two headed plug for the motherboard so that I can connect the Zip, or is
>there a 4 plug tape connector that I can plug all four into?    I think if I
>remember correctly, one (on the 4 plug connector) would  have to be a male
>plug.  If there is, could you tell me what to ask for.

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