ide 1 IDE cable cannot handle 2 drives

[Justasking]

So, just for fun I want to set up a pc with my spare IDE drives, and I have cables with 3 total connectors(1 goes to motherboard, other 2 go to drives). If I only use one drive everythings ok but with 2 it doesnt work, and in bios I get a weird name for the drive. How can I get both drives working fine? (mobo: asus m2a-VM, 2 gb of DDR2 ram, amd athlon 64 x2 4000+ cpu)

[peger]

There should be jumpers on the drives. Set one drive as master and other as slave .

[Justasking]

35 minutes ago, peger said:

There should be jumpers on the drives. Set one drive as master and other as slave .

my WD pair works this way, but a maxtor+seagate doesnt, what to do with them?

[peger]

3 hours ago, Justasking said:

my WD pair works this way, but a maxtor+seagate doesnt, what to do with them?

IDK. Did you check the jumper diagram on the disks. Different manufacturers may have different settings.

[Justasking]

18 hours ago, peger said:

IDK. Did you check the jumper diagram on the disks. Different manufacturers may have different settings.

tried running the WD drives as masters and the rest as slaves which worked, thanks for helping!