How can an Asus P5K-VM Motherboard connect to a disc drive?

Question

They give you installation cd's for the drivers so obviously you must be abel to somhow, yet i can't figure it out. The one spot where it could connect to is where the hard drive has to go as it's just ATA, not SATA. Here's the specs for the motherboard. http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1690&l1=3&l2=11&l3=542&l4=0

Answer 1

You can connect 2 devices to each ATA MB connector. You need a ATA ribbon cable that has 2 drive connectors.

Answer 2

ATA can handle 2 devices per cable... 1 "Master" and 1 "slave"  If your cable only has a single connector (well 2... 1 for the MB, one for the drive) then you need a cable with 2 (3) connectors.  Set the HD as master, the CD drive as slave.

Answer 3

dude your ata cd reader is useless

it has 1 IDE or 4 SATA for this mobo

get a new cd-rom/dvd-rom/ram whatever and make sure its SATA or IDE