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Connecting my cdr Ribbons together

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by wayneinreno

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Both plastic connectors do not have a way of connecting because the are "exactly" alike. They both have a closed side and female connections.
I must have missed something, or do I need some kind of adapter to connect the two. I would like to get my regular CD player, and my CDR working normally.Right now I switched the jumper and only have the CDR working.

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by tyamane

Hi,

I'm a little confused by your question. I believe you are trying to connect your two devices like you would do with audio equipment. Internal IDE devices need to be designated master, slave and need to be connected to a controller device (either on the mother board or on an expansion card). Don't try to connect them together with an adapter. If your computer is plug and play, it should find the new device and attempt to load the driver.

Good luck,
Ted

by cruncher_1

There are 4 options for connecting IDE devices. Your hard drive is probably primary master. If so, you can attach the CD-ROM as a secondary master and the CdR as secondary slave. To do this set all jumpers accordingly and plug both CD-Rom and CDR inwith the same cable. One end of the cable should be plugged into the motherboard or IDE adapter in the secondary IDE outlet. The cable should have 2 more plugs to be used on your 2 devices.

Hope this helps,

by wayneinreno

Isn't there a way to connect the ribbon from the CDROM to the ribbon of the CDR. I have the jumper set to master, and I am not using my CDROM. I am just letting the CDR do all the wotk. There is a connector on the ribbon from the CDR, it is kind-of in the middle of the ribbon cable, but I don't know how to connect the two of them together. CDROM and CDR.

by zlitocook

the connector or cable from your mother board to the cd only has one connector that attaches to the cdrom? if so you can buy one that has two connectors for two devices. on most every cdrom or hard drive there are male connections. the ribbon cable is the way to connect them and it normaly female.

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