Cd burner problem?

i get a cd burner from a friend, and i have no extra slave or master chord for the cd burner. what shulid i do

Cd burner problem?

Replace your cd rom beside the new drive if you own one (cdrom). There are PCI IDE cards to get two more IDE channel also.
Well If you dont have any extra IDE ports on your motherboard where on earth you plug in things close to the drives or hard drives, next your only other risk is to go and purchase an external cd burner. they are relatively cheap and they plug into usb ports.
You don't inevitability a special IDE for these drives. You can get a IDE cable from the local Radio Shack or other computer/electronics store for a few dollars. Then set the jersey on the single optical drive (CD burner) to the Master position. The opposite running out plugs into the mobo into the port labeled Secondary IDE . If you get a DVD burner, afterwards take this compact disc burner out, and set the jumper to the Slave position, and produce the DVD burner the Master drive. There are three plugs on the IDE cable, one goes to the mobo, the other two hook up to the optical drives.