What is the ideal setup for Hard drives and CD-Roms on IDE Controllers. I usually put my Ultra 100 hard drive on one IDE controller with a 80 pin cable and the CD-Rom on the second IDE with a 40 pin ...
Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.