[Ham-Computers] Can I Connect an IDE Drive and CD Drive to the Same Cable?

[Ron Youvan]

Jim Hill wrote:

> Thanks for the help.  Guess I wasn't clear about my problem.  The
> motherboard has two connectors, one for IDE hard drives and the other
> for CD drives.  The CD drive part stopped working recently.  I need
> to use the CD drive occasionally, both to boot from a CD and to read
> a CD once the computer has started, and asked for any suggestions

   It appears that way.  The two controllers will interface four of any 
kind of IDE devices of any kind in any order.
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