Cd-rw And Dvd-rom

[peshewah]

I"ll have two serial ata maxtor HD that will hookup to SATA connectors on mobo.And that will leave both of the ide connectors open.Right? I"ll connect the cd-rw (master) and dvd-rom(slave) to my secondary ide slot. Right? Is this the best way to hook them up or is there a better way? Also,is there jumpers on SATA HD's. Very new at this and I appericate your input. Also, can you tell me a good floppy drive to get.

[O(V)eGA_l2el)]

heh, when it comes to floppy drives it doesnt matter, any will you.

I would connect the DVD-ROM to the primary IDE controller and the CD-RW to the secondary IDE controller (they are both set to slave but on different drives, just incase you want to add more HDs to IDE set those to master)

[peshewah]

do they make single connecter cables ?Or do I have to use double connecters?

[O(V)eGA_l2el)]

Single device IDE cables do exist but I would suggest the norm, which is two

2 double connecting IDE cables can connect up to four devices

For example:

Primary cable-->1 HD as master and 1 CD-rom drive as slave

Secondary cable--> same

[peshewah]

thanks for the info. But I"m still wondering about serial ATA hardrives. Do they only connect to SATA connectors and have nothing to do with ide connectors on the mobo? And is there a master/slave setting on them? Like I said I"m very new at this,but I"m having a good time trying to build one.And I do thank you for your help.