Can i have 3 cd roms

[urwise]

I have just brought a new motherboard that has raid sockets on which only supports hard drives,if i connect both my hdd to them can i then have 2 cd roms and 1 dvd rom on the normal set up,or am i going about it the wrong way,any help would be gratefully received.

 

[weboneando]

The normal ide will let you connect two cds per chanel, 4 in total, just make sure that your raid works properly with your booting hd

 

[Geoff]

Or, don't want to confuse the issue but......?
you could buy a cheap(ish) SCSI card and the have the benefits of SCSI hard drive and/or CD drives.

Doesn't help though if you have already have the IDE gear.

I that is the case then an added PCI IDE card would be the way to go.

 

[The-poacher]

If U use your raid for Fixed drives U can put 2 IDE CD/DVD Roms or writers on each IDE connection as masters & slaves (a total of 4)
I would advise that if U put a CDRW on dont have it on the same IDE cable as the the CDROM u copy from (especially if U are copying on the fly)