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PATA/IDE allows two drives co-exist on single cable in a Master/Slave mode. In old laptops, there was an IDE 44-pin port.

Assuming that IDE slave is not taken by a CDROM, is it possible (with some kind of cable splitter) to connect two IDE drives to that port? Will this configuration let the drives to be seen by BIOS?

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  • Most standard IDE cables had two connectors for two drives. Any old geek has a box full of them in his basement. Oct 23, 2014 at 11:31

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Unless the BIOS is hardcoded to only accept the CDROM on the IDE slave, it should work.

I'm using an old Lenovo laptop motherboard as a desktop motherboard and it can see 4 HDD as expected

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