Old Hard Drive For My New Athlon X2

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Hey guys....I purchased Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with Asus M2N-E mobo. I got new WD 250GB SATA-II hard drive. Now I have old Segate PATA drive along with my old Sony DVD-RW which has also PATA interface. Now problem is that my mobo has only one Primary IDE connector. But I want to connect my old HDD and DVD-RW. How to do this....?

Connect new SATA HDD to SATA port on the mobot.

You can connect both old HDD and DVD-RW to the IDE port on the mobo. You can connect two PATA devices to one pata IDE port

That's true but I have to connect same cable on both HDD and DVD-RW. And the cable is too short to connect both of these devices....!!

Get a 80 pin IDE conductor cable from any PC hardware shop. It costs somewhere around 40 rupees.

But how can I connect hdd and dvd on same 80 pin connector cable....it's too short man. I already got one with asus mobo.

^^ I face the same problem with all new boards.
Well what you can do is connect the ODD to mobo IDE channel and connect HDD to a PCI IDE Raid card.Use it as IDE controller,thats what you can do sadly,no other way

just try and keep the hdd and the optical drive as close to each other as possible.