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Typically EIDE cables connect to IDE Hard-drives and optical drives such as CD and DVD Drives.

The cable connects between the motherboard of the computer and the hard-drive or optical drive.

Normally most motherboards have two idea buses. You can have to drives per cable. So a total of 4 drives.

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A hard disk drive connects to a EIDE cable. However, many newer computers are replacing the EIDE with the SATA interface.

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