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This is driving me nuts. Opticals drives only power up if ata cable is disconnected

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leigh6

Diamond Member
Hi all,

In the middle of building a new system.

ECS nforce 3
Sempron 3100
Seagate 120 pata
benq 3550
lite on cdrom
corsair 512 value
ti 4200

The mobo/cpu vid memory combo came from a working system.

Beng is new (tested)
Memory is testeor
HD is new
cdrom is new

I cant get the optical drives to turn on. When I unplug the cable there is no problem. Is this a cable problem or an Ide channel problem. It happens in either ide 1 or ide 2 channel.

So confused. 5 years of building and this has never happened before.

Leigh

 
Wrong cable, bad cable, upside down cable? Cable for new systems (80-wire with blue, gray and black color-coded connectors) should be used. Blue connector plugs into mobo - should be keyed to go only one way - if not be sure pin one on one end is connected to pin one on the other. All drives can be set to Cable Select or Master/Slave. If set to Cable Select (many come that way by default), then both drives on a cable must be set to CS. The drive you want to be "master" or primary will plug into the black connector and the one you want to be "slave" or secondary will plug into the gray (middle) connector. If you set the drives to master/slave then the location on the cable becomes irrelevant. A single CS drive must be plugged into the black (end) connector.

.bh.
 
FIXED.

I forgot if I set 1 jumper to cs and the other to master or slave it wont work. I am getting senile. THANKS Zepper.
 
I've always installed Master on the end of the cable and Slave in the Middle. With Slave removed the Master still functions since Master and Single drive jumper setting is the same.
 
Originally posted by: Auric
I've always installed Master on the end of the cable and Slave in the Middle. With Slave removed the Master still functions since Master and Single drive jumper setting is the same.
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For optical drives and most hard drives yes, but not WD hard drives 😉 stupid things have a master, slave, cable select, AND "single" drive settings, so annoying. But I don't use WD drives anyway, let alone IDE hard drives so I don't care that much I guess.
 
Wow, it doesn't make much sense to design it that way and certainly would be annoying, nay unuseable, with a removable Slave. Older storage controllers particularly may not support CS. Folks are often quick to mention the cables being the main benefit of Serial but really it's dedicated ports sans the Master/Slave relationship. Indeed, the cable connector design is rather shoddy if you axe me. Still, it will be nice to leave behind Parallel or more importantly the incompatible mix I'm using now.
 
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