[SpamCop-Social] Re: If I have to get a new 'puter

[Porpoise]

"Sylvesterthekat" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> "Heidi" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> Don't you have to have enough slots on the motherboard for two drives? 
>> And
>> is there always an extra one?
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> It doesn't connect to the motherboard, instead you daisy chain them off 
> each
> other as I recall (hence one is slaved off the other). Your only 
> limitation
> is power wires and slots to actually house the drive (they usually live
> above or below where your CD drive is)


And make sure you don't connect it to the same IDE channel as the CD/DVD 
drive........ It'll slow things down