WTF is the above ??
I have added a removable drive on to the IDE loom of my desk top and have been asking for assistance and people are telling me to set master and slave.
Where do I do this folks ?
XP home btw

 

Hello

On the back there should be a little piece of metal that connects several pins. These are called "jumpers".

For Example:



Steve.

 

Ah !

Now all I have to do is find out the combination for master and slave ??
Should tell me on the drive somewhere?

 

need to make your main drive the master and other drives, slaves

 

On the back of the drive you should find 3 pairs of pins. They are usually marked MA(Master) SL(Slave) CS(Cable Select)

If you have added this drive on a cable that already has a hard drive (or CD/DVD etc), set the original one to MA and the new one to SL.

If it is the only device on a cable, I think I'm right in saying you should set it as MA.

See my next post for reason for edit


[Edited by Fig - 11/17/2003 5:11:38 PM]

 

fig i've always set up any lone device on an IDE as a master, although i'd imagine it would make much difference if it was the only device, 2 devices which is the maximum for IDE slot need to be set as one primary one slave, not got a clue what cable select is though until i open my xbox i though it meant the device which was first inline was treated as master

Si

 

Duh, what was I thinking? Brain said MA, fingers typed SL
Single device is set as a Master.

As for Cable Select. The drive is configured at the factory for a cable select setting. This allows the drive to assume the proper role of master or slave based on the connector used on the cable. For the cable select setting to work properly, the cables you are using must support the cable select feature. Current UltraATA cables with the 3 colored connectors do support this feature.

 

Had a break for tea

Thanks for the replies!

Jobs a good'un

Another new thing learned !

 

Cheers for the info fig