Trouble with connecting hardrive and optical drive

Mcwoos

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Apr 11, 2013
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I am having trouble with my IDE cable. I went the cheaper route because I didn't have alot of money(Don't say avoid IDE at all costs, sata is the only way to go because sata is not the only way and IDE still works fine). I got my CPU and was ready to start my PC up. I started it and My hdd didnt appear on the boot menu so I unplugged the cable and put in a new one thats not long enough to reach the optical drive and HDD so I just plugged in the hdd. It worked so I tried to connect bothe devices with the cable and I did but it said the hard drive was not on the boot menu so I unplugged it again and only plugged the hdd and it works fine now. My question is how many devices can be connected to my mobo: Asrock 760gm-gs3? (Sorry for the long story)