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Changing Master/Slave on IDE cable between 2 Drives?

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Mongoo

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I've got a burnt hardrive that dosen't spin, I'm going to try the freezer methode to hopefully get a back up.

Here's what I've got.

One IDE cable with Master (DvD player), Slave (CD Burner). That burnet hardrive was the master on this chain. My plan is to take the DVD Player out and put a DVD burner in, disconnect the CD burner and set the DVD burner to master.

First off, Can I do this with just unpluging things and changing the jumber on the drives?

I will back up and delete as much as I can from my 30GB drive to leave space to immediately copy my files over to.

Then I will take the burnet drive and freeze it. By the grace of god just maybe it will work and I can put it on that IDE cabble with the DVD burner as the slave. (I've just heard that this should be the slave for some reason)

Do you think this will work? Again what it does is not spin and makes musical beeps. I've heard nothing about these musical beeps. They are not clicks, because it repeats itself perfectly like 5-6 times and they sound musical.



The big thing I need to know about is the MASTER/SLAVE issue. Is it just a matter of changing the jumpers on the drives or is there more to it like software tinkering or something?


Thank you much

Mongoo
 
Is there a signifigance to what you set as master and what you set to slave? Can you have either IDE Connection set to master or slave or do you need to have the one at the end of the cable always be the master and so on?
 
Originally posted by: Mongoo

The big thing I need to know about is the MASTER/SLAVE issue. Is it just a matter of changing the jumpers on the drives or is there more to it like software tinkering or something?


Thank you much

Mongoo
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Aside from the jumpers, the only thing that can occaisionally cause probs is the IDE cabling. The ide cable has two connectors. The one on the end being for master, the one in the middle of the cable being for slave.

Fern
 
Originally posted by: Mongoo
I've got a burnt hardrive that dosen't spin, I'm going to try the freezer methode to hopefully get a back up.

Here's what I've got.

One IDE cable with Master (DvD player), Slave (CD Burner). That burnet hardrive was the master on this chain. My plan is to take the DVD Player out and put a DVD burner in, disconnect the CD burner and set the DVD burner to master.

First off, Can I do this with just unpluging things and changing the jumber on the drives?

I will back up and delete as much as I can from my 30GB drive to leave space to immediately copy my files over to.

Then I will take the burnet drive and freeze it. By the grace of god just maybe it will work and I can put it on that IDE cabble with the DVD burner as the slave. (I've just heard that this should be the slave for some reason)

Do you think this will work? Again what it does is not spin and makes musical beeps. I've heard nothing about these musical beeps. They are not clicks, because it repeats itself perfectly like 5-6 times and they sound musical.



The big thing I need to know about is the MASTER/SLAVE issue. Is it just a matter of changing the jumpers on the drives or is there more to it like software tinkering or something?


Thank you much

Mongoo
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It really is just as simple as setting the proper jumpers, and making sure you connect the slave drive to the last connector on the IDE cable and the master drive to the middle connector on the cable. If you have an 80wire cable select IDE cable, then you can set the jumpers on both drives to CS and place them on the cable as I just stated and they will automatically configure as slave and master.

More information in this IDE Guide
 
Originally posted by: D1gger
Originally posted by: Mongoo
I've got a burnt hardrive that dosen't spin, I'm going to try the freezer methode to hopefully get a back up.

Here's what I've got.

One IDE cable with Master (DvD player), Slave (CD Burner). That burnet hardrive was the master on this chain. My plan is to take the DVD Player out and put a DVD burner in, disconnect the CD burner and set the DVD burner to master.

First off, Can I do this with just unpluging things and changing the jumber on the drives?

I will back up and delete as much as I can from my 30GB drive to leave space to immediately copy my files over to.

Then I will take the burnet drive and freeze it. By the grace of god just maybe it will work and I can put it on that IDE cabble with the DVD burner as the slave. (I've just heard that this should be the slave for some reason)

Do you think this will work? Again what it does is not spin and makes musical beeps. I've heard nothing about these musical beeps. They are not clicks, because it repeats itself perfectly like 5-6 times and they sound musical.



The big thing I need to know about is the MASTER/SLAVE issue. Is it just a matter of changing the jumpers on the drives or is there more to it like software tinkering or something?


Thank you much

Mongoo
Click to expand...

It really is just as simple as setting the proper jumpers, and making sure you connect the slave drive to the last connector on the IDE cable and the master drive to the middle connector on the cable. If you have an 80wire cable select IDE cable, then you can set the jumpers on both drives to CS and place them on the cable as I just stated and they will automatically configure as slave and master.

More information in this IDE Guide
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Sorry to seem picky, but you've got the master/slave connection reversed. From the guide you linked:

" These days they're colour-coded; the blue connector goes into the motherboard, the black connector - furthermost away from the blue end - is for master drive and the grey connector - in the middle - is for the slave drive. "

Master on end of cable. Slave in the middle.

Fern
 
Of course you are correct. It is interesting that the diagram farther down on the page I linked to showed the opposite, master in the middle and slave on the end connector.
 
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