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Timothy Daniels
"Trent©" wsrote:
Trent, you're trying to make the exception the rule. Please desist.
*TimDaniels*
Trent, you're trying to make the exception the rule. Please desist.
*TimDaniels*
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Timothy Daniels
Trent© said:
Western Digital is obviously an exception. You're basing your
advice on an exception. Please quell yourself.
*TimDaniels*
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yabbadoo
Alex, Anna, and everyone - thank you all for your input. With luck, I have a
"standard" 3 year old Asus motherboard (it's jumperless) and the "new" HDD
will be also "standard" (it's a gift, not new, and won't see it till the
weekend).
I plan on doing what my first inclination was, i.e. the 2 HDD's as masters
on different IDE's, with the 2 optical drives as slaves - it seemed logical,
and all I asked was whether it was correct.
Unusually, it seems that whatever the set-up, it will be correct - personal
preference (if I read the responses correctly and don't have non-standard
kit). Will post "success" if and when ....
Thanks, everyone!
Sincerely, Len.
"standard" 3 year old Asus motherboard (it's jumperless) and the "new" HDD
will be also "standard" (it's a gift, not new, and won't see it till the
weekend).
I plan on doing what my first inclination was, i.e. the 2 HDD's as masters
on different IDE's, with the 2 optical drives as slaves - it seemed logical,
and all I asked was whether it was correct.
Unusually, it seems that whatever the set-up, it will be correct - personal
preference (if I read the responses correctly and don't have non-standard
kit). Will post "success" if and when ....
Thanks, everyone!
Sincerely, Len.
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Trent©
Sorry...no.
And please go troll somewhere else. The only time you ever jump in is
to contradict someone's post.
Try HELPIN' someone sometime.
Have a nice one...
Trent
Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
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Trent©
You just made the garbage bucket. I guess I have no patience for your
kind anymore.
Have a nice life.
Trent
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NobodyMan
I've isntalled plenty of drives where the master setting was the same
as a drive that was a "single" drive, ie no other drive was on that
channe.
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Anna
NobodyMan said:
Since I'm the one who wrote what Trent is questioning, allow me the
privilege of responding to Trent's question...
Is it so inconceivable to you that you can't understand that we built many,
many computers where there were only two IDE devices connected, i.e., a hard
drive and a CD/DVD-ROM (or CD/DVD burner)? So that the hard drive was
connected as Primary Master and the ATAPI device as Primary Slave. And there
were no problems whatsoever with the hard drive booting, lonely as its
position may be as the only device on the IDE cable.
Anna
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Timothy Daniels
Anna said:
Anna, you've just described a scenario with 2 devices on the same
cable/channel - the Primary channel.
*TimDaniels*
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Anna
Timothy Daniels said:
Yes, you're right Timothy. I misspoke (mistyped?). Of course the second
IDE/ATAPI device was connected as Master on the Secondary IDE channel. Sorry
for the error. My conclusion, of course, remains as written.
Anna
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Trent©
Try it again...just for grins...
Take a WD...that has separate jumpers for 'master' and for 'single
drive '.
First try it as 'master'...get back to us.
Then try it as 'single'...then get back to us.
Then try a WD that has a combo setting for 'master OR single drive'.
Then get back to us.
An IDE drive set to MASTER must has a slave attached.
Final post by me on this.
Have a nice one...
Trent
Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
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Timothy Daniels
Trent© said:
WRONG. That MIGHT apply to *Western Digital* IDE drives,
but NOT to hard drives to in general. Again and continually,
you try to base a rule on an exception. Please desist from
your campaign of disinformation.
*TimDaniels*
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Anna
Trent© said:
Trent:
Let me join you in also making this my final post on this (interminable?)
subject, but allow me this parting shot...
Of course, of course! if we were connecting a WD HD that was designed with a
Single jumper setting and we were installing that HD as a single device as
Master with no other IDE/ATAPI device on that IDE channel, then obviously we
would jumper the drive as Single. What other course should we take?
Naturally, if that drive was INCORRECTLY jumpered as Master (instead of
Single) and no other drive was connected as Slave on that IDE cable, then of
course, problems could arise preventing that HD from booting. (Incidentally,
we ran across many, many instances where a WD was connected as a single
device, but was jumpered inadvertently as Master instead of Single, and
guess what? It booted. But, of course, that was an anomaly; it should have
been jumpered as Single).
So again, for the last time I will unequivocally state...
There is absolutely no need for a Slave device to be present on an IDE cable
that contains a hard drive that is correctly connected as Master for that
hard drive to boot.
Anna
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Timothy Daniels
Anna said:
Thanks for sharing your experience with that aspect of
Western Digital hard drives. I suspected that such was
the case. I didn't think that a major hard drive manufacturer
would make itself so dependent on users remembering to
change a "Master" jumpering to "Single" whenever they
removed the 2nd HD - it would have made them too
susceptible to criticism by their competitors. (Can you
say "Western Diddley"?)
*TimDaniels*