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Master/Slave/Cable Select jumper setting question

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  1. Whysper20

    Whysper20 Member

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    I have 2 ide hard-drive i want to use for storage and im unsure how to set the jumper.I tried a few option and only one drive shows.Both drive are seagate barracuda 120gb and 400gb and will be running on the same ide cable.So what would be the appropriate way to set the jumper?
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    do master on 1 drive & slave on other drive. if a dell machine then try cable select on both if master & slave doesn't work.
     
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    strewth.. rocket science question.. like.. these settings have only been around for 20 years and STILL people can't find an answer for themselves.. or grow ONE braincell??

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    ddp the only setting that seem to work for now are both drive on cable select thx for your input much appreciated
     
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    dell computer?
     
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    Nevermind didnt worked with both on cable select when i tried to access the drive it froze than disapear, couldnt see it in device manager either just like before only one drive shows the 400gb

    Nope not a dell,using a p35-ds3l board and windows 7
     
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    yeah all my old Dells were set to Cable Select.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    Whysper20, how many drives do have connected or attempting to connect? how many watts is your psu?
     
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    Psu is 500w i have 3 drive connected 250gb WD caviar on sata and 2 seagate barracuda on ide
     
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    try another ide cable with 1 drive jumpered master & other is slave.
     
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    I change the ide cable,both drive shows but cant access the 400gb the 120gb works fine
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    The 400gb is set on master and the 120gb on slave
     
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    is the 400gig a new drive & if so then has it been partitioned & formated?
     
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    or even initalised
    try start right click my computer manage disk management and right click the drive
     
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    both drive are formatted and works fine on their own,a friend is bringing me an ide to sata converter ill see if this works
     
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    hi :)
    is the master on the end of the ide ribbon
     
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    ddp the drive is formatted and partitioned

    gurnard the drive set to master is at the end of the ribbon which is the dvd drive and the 120gb is set on slave on the second connector, the 400gb is on sata1 through a ide/sata converter and the 250gb is on sata0 no converter

    pcrepair the drive show as active in device manager,i dont know if it matters but the file system shows as raw not ntfs


    i just put the drive in my external enclosure set on cable select and i was allowed to reformat,did so and the drive now works again.using the ide/sata converter should i set the drive on cable select master or slave ?
     
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    hi :)

    ideally it should be set at master for an external drive if ide

    from this statement the drive is a sata drive...so therefore has no jumper
     
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    so i just have to put the converter on the drive no jumper on and it should be fine ?
     
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    hi :)
    don't know much about converters..but judging from what you say..your going from ide drive to sata slot on mb..if so i should think that the drive should be set to master
     
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    yea im going from ide drive to sata on mobo using a converter,dont know much about a performance differance but it works and seem stable with the jumper set to master

    thx for your input guys
     
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