Need help (no duh)

By Jurgen_Mudvayne
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Grand Master

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By the by it is pluged into the motherboard and still has 3 plugs going spare.

it's a ribbon cable and it has 3 plugs and yet you're telling me it doesn't exist.

We aren't saying that you don't have such a cable in front of you.

We are saying it is not an IDE cable. They only support 2 devices.

[EDIT: Even though it is not a true IDE cable, it is likely pinned so it will still work, but it will still have a two device limit.]

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Sata doesn't even show up and I don't have any way to get a pic of the cable and I'm not opening the beast up again.

hmmm... your not opening it... that's too bad because the next thing I was going to ask you are these:

Which motherboard you have (i.e. Gigabyte k7-nl100)

And to write down anything that is writtin on your hardrive and dvd...

Why that? We might find out valuable information (as for scsi and other thing)

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you don't live in quebec do you? I would have come help you if you lived near me...

Hmmm... well, if you happen to open your computer, something that really need to be doing while it's open is take your motherboard manufacturer and model. These are valuable information that can really give us some kick to help you out.

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[edit] I have no experience whatsoever with scsi

Point is the cable you described won't work in your computer....

I'm still questioning whether it exists...

From what you've said it seems to be working like a normal IDE cable supporting only two devices.

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SCSI, IDE and SATA doesn't have the same number of pins... scsi have different type (narrow, wide, ...) but none have the same number of pins... same for SATA and IDE. This is made on purpose so you don't use the wrong cable... yes, a 40 pins cable can fin a 72 one, but then, you have loose pin...

But you guys are forgetting something: only 1 of the 3 drives aren't showing up...

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But you guys are forgetting something: only 1 of the 3 drives aren't showing up...

I haven't forgotten that. :p That is because the two slave devices are conflicting and cannot use the IDE at the same time, so neither will work.

At least, that is my assumption, as I don't know of any cases (until now) where someone has managed to connect three devices on an IDE cable. :rofl:

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