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Western Digital hard drive and Samsung CD Rom drive - where to connect and master slave?

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Sub51

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Asus A7V33 mobo.

Do I just plug the HD and the CD Drive in the IDE connectors? How exactly do I config master/slave and is it even necessary?
 
If I may assume, that the HD and CD-ROM are the only devices that will be attached, then I'd have the HD on the Primary IDE controller, set as Master...and the CD-ROM setup on the Secondary IDE controller as a Master as well.....on the HD and CD-ROM there should be a label that will show you how to set jumpers, to set each device as Master/Slave.
Might as well point out, I'm assummin again, that you have the proper ATA100/133 IDE cable for your HD, make sure the blue end of cable plugs in to the mobo. On the IDE cable, it won't matter where your devices plug into, as long as jumpers are set on the devices.
Your motherboard manual, should help explain, most of this....if you don't have a manual, check out ASUS's website, you could maybe download one, if need be.
 
1. For WD Hard Drives, you don't set them as Master when it's the only drive on the cable, you take the jumpers out (no jumpers period).
2. It does matter where you plug the drive in. You should always plug the drive in at the "End" of the cable when using only one drive. This prevents signal loose (or something like that). Hard drive manufacturers can explain it better.
3. Aviod plugging anything else on a cable with a hard drive other than a hard drive. ESPECIALLY a cd-rom. 😉
4. It doesn't matter if a cd-rom device is jumpered master or slave if it's on the cable by itself, as long as it works. Same goes for Hard Drive. As long as it's the only device you have on that channel, it really doesn't affect anything whether it is master or slave.

Good Luck! 😀
 
WD drives are peculiar in that they have a "master" and a "single" jumper setting.

There are three possible scenarios-

With two cables, set the HDD as single on the end of the cable plugged into IDE 0 channel, set the CD as master on the other cable/channel. This is your best scenario.

With one cable, set the HDD as master and the CD as slave, or vice-versa, with the cable plugged into IDE 0. Sometimes it will only work one way or the other.

With one cable, set both devices to CS (cable select) on IDE channel 0 and let the bios figure it out. Sometimes this doesn't work, but you can't hurt anything by trying.

Consult the manual, run thru the bios setup, set it to boot first from the floppy, then the CD, then the HDD. After installing the o/s, reset it to boot from the HDD first.







 
When first building my computer, I put my WD 120 GB SE on the "end" of the cable (nothing in the slave position) and changed the jumper from "cable select" (the factory default setting) to "master." My computer would not see the drive - I started to freak out until I put the jumper back to cs and it then worked like a charm. 🙂

By the way, because of cable neatness, I have my HD connected to the secondary IDE controller, and my Lite-On CD-RW connected to the primary (nothing in either slave position). I haven't noticed any sort of slow downs, but is this a big deal? Should I really have the HD on the primary?
 
wpenhall-

With modern chipsets and bioses, it doesn't matter. Wasn't always that way. Much older systems required that the boot drive be the master on IDE 0.
 
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