IDE to sata converter not working

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adam ryder

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i bought a IDE to sata converter. it plugges into your ide port on motherboard or onto your harddrive and it creates 2 sata ports. and i plugged it staight into the IDE port on my motherboard then i plugged the 4 pin floppy power cable into it. then i plugged in a third harddrive into the converter and it works fine detects all 3 harddrives. so then i bought a sata dvd rom and plugged it into the converter. so now i have 3 harddrives (2 into motherboard and 1 into converter) and 1 dvd rom that is plugged into converter. but doesnt work. it either only detects 2 harddrives the ones in the motherboard or 3 harddrives or 2 harddrives and dvd rom it doesnt detect all 3 harddrives + dvd rom at once. pls help
 
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Erman Yudhistira

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1 sata port is use for sata host. 1 sata port use for sata drive. sata host mean to connect to the motherboard if you have IDE drive. in my experience, if you want to put 2 drive in IDE port, you have to setting the master and the slave drive. but the sata drive doesn't have the jumper right?
 
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adam ryder

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a jumper is that thing that was on harddrives where you took that two pin thing and put it between those pins to say if its a slave or master right? my sata harddrives dont have that (i think) i set my masters and slaves in the bios
 
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SATA drives do not use master/slave jumpers. You connect one SATA device per SATA port.

The exception to that is that some eSATA (e = external) are port multipliers (see below). This is not typically supported by low-end adapters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_multiplier

I suspect that the OP's adapter will only support 2 devices if both ports are internal ports and no external devices at the same time (if supported at all).
 
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adam ryder

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i was thinking of getting a pci catd but my graphics card is dual slots (2 slots big) and covers the slot. i plugged the converter into my motherboard and it created 2 sata slots. but why would it create 2 sata slots if you can only use 1
 
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Hi, the converter is made to convert IDE from the motherboard to a SATA drive with one SATA port, and SATA from the motherboard to a IDE drive with the other SATA port. One SATA port is for the drive and the other for the motherboard.
 
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adam ryder

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the one i have looks exactly like that one. 2 sata ports on the oppisite sides . exacly like that one except mines a different colour and has a red light that comes on when youplug something is the top sata port
 
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