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From: james@nospam.com
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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 07:47:51 -0600
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:42:19 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>If you have two connectors, you can almost certainly have four (E)IDE 
>drives: each IDE cable can support two devices, either master and slave 
>(determined by the position - usually absence or presence - of a link on 
>the drives themselves), or cable select. (Master/slave is the commonest 
>in my experience.)
>>

There is only one IDE connector on the motherbd. One of them goes to the
CD drive. There are two SATA connectors too. Those go to the hard
drives. But I plan to clone two IDE drives by unplugging the SATA
drives. Thats why I cant plug in two IDE drives and a CD drive.
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