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[Naked Snake]

Say I have two HDDs already installed on the primary IDE controller, and two CD/DVD drivers on the secondary... Can I remove one of the optical drives and put a third HDD in its place for temporary files copying?

 

[maharg]

Yes, there's nothing special about the second channel. You should consider just getting an external USB2 or Firewire drive bay if it's a temporary thing though. They're not too expensive and they save a lot of hassle. You never know when they'll come in handy.

You should also consider having your hard drives on seperate channels to begin with if you do a lot of copying between them.

 

[G4life98]

Yeah aslong as you have the master/slave jumper setting right...you should not have a problem.

 

[Shogmaster]

Just remember that the speed of that drive will be alot slower when the optical drive is being accessed.