Which IDE plug is master and which is slave? Does it matter?

[Shockwave]

Wow, 2.5 years or so on the Abit KT-7 with 4 IDE got me spoiled. Only have 2 IDE controllers now.

SO, 1 controller is sharing a CD-Rom and a HD. How do I set it up? CD Rom on the middle connector, HD on the end set to Master on the jumpers?

Thanks, and damn I feel dumb about now

 

[techfuzz]

You are correct. At the end put the HD with its jumpers set to Master and in the middle put the CDROM with its jumpers set to slave.

Ahhhh, jumpers what a wonderful idea... I think I'll shoot the idiot who came up with that idea now!

techfuzz

 

[hkazemi26]

It not advised to have a HDD and Optical device (CD, DVD) operating on the same IDE channel for performance reasons. Consider this especially when burning CDs (assuming your drive is a burner and not just a plain cd-rom) since there will have to be a read, then write, then read, (alternating) instead of a continuous flow. (Since ide can only perfrom one function at a time, as opposed to SCSI). Keep your optical and hard drives on separate channels.

 

[Shockwave]

Thanks guys!

Oh, and burner?
Plextor SCSI

Why arent the rest of my drives? Bleh, ran out of fundage.

 

[LED]

The cable can be hooked up either way as the Jumpers make the difference and what hkazemi26 states is for old MoBo's newer ones can have them hooked together without degradation. In fact if you burn on the fly it is better to have the Opticals set on seperate IDE channels.

 

[Shockwave]

Well, guess I have a OS problem. See, the reason i ask is my logical drive F (Which is my second HD in full) keeps coming up as inactive when I boot in Winblows. Go to Disk Manager, reactivate it and it comes online reporting errors. This didnt happen till I upgraded motherboards, so I dont think its a physical issue in terms of the errors. Thought maybe jumpers would have been the problem.
Any ideas why the logical drive alwasy starts inactive and once online reports errors? Asus A7N8X running Win2K AS.

 

[LED]

Is there another OS on the Drive?...What's your PSU Power?...Are the jumpers set correct?...Did you check and hook the cables the right way?

 

[Shockwave]

Cable set right, jumpers set to slave on optical and cable select on HD. OS is Win2K AS, onhly one on there. PS is Enermax 400 (I think 400, maybe 435).

 

[LED]

cable select on HD

Change that to Master w/slave device or Master and try it...

 

[Shockwave]

I'll try that tomorrow. So far I've had to reinstall my OS twice and reset my BIOS once today. I'm done muckin with this thing. I'm puttin on some music, making a cup of tea and surfin some pron.
Dumb PC....

Thanks for all the tips and advice though!

 

[Challenger]

Hwy not use a PCI IDE controller and have you four masters back?

 

[Shockwave]

I plan on migrating to SCSI / SATA, so dont really wanna drop any money into more PATA equipment. Also, its not a huge deal to me, more importantly then having to initialze the volume every time I reboot is whether the data is safe. Long as I dont loose the data, I really dont care. I mean, I would prefer I didnt have to but....
Lets just say, out of all the problems I could have, if this is the worst I get I'll be damned happy!