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The cable is an 80-pin, and I did try moving the drives to different connectors, and also jumpering them both ways. I'm really out of options. I'm going to hall out the laptops these came out of and see if they will at least work long enough to help me tell if the drives are working, but...

I only have Sony's propriety burning SW, but it will import .avi. Roxio may do this also.

Unfortunately, I don't have a known good drive to try. Where did you get your adapter that connects directly to the board?

Haven't had any success using them as masters or slaves on the secondary cable. I know the cable is OK because a regular HD worked OK on it. Unless they are all 3 dead, which is not impossible, the only thing I can think of that is left is the laptop HD adapter.

A belated thanks for the final reply above also. I know this is a dumb question, but I want to be sure - does there have to be a master on the secondary IDE for a slave to work? Just trying to test all my options before I give up. Thanks!

OK, thanks!

I believe the adapters I am using are probably the same as the ones you're describing. They look like this one: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705 They only use one drive at a time, but I have tried all three drives on the adapter. I considered trying them as masters...

I have bought the adapters and jumpers needed to install a laptop hard drive on a desktop system. I have used full size hard drives jumpered as slaves in the same position on the cable, so I know the cable is not the issue. I have a Fujitsu laptop drive and two IBM laptop drives which I am...