Help with Slave/Master Settings

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Douglas Fifield

Building a new PC with son.

Installed components last night and have a question about the
slave/master settings on the hard drive and the CD/DVD drive. There
is no floppy at the present.

I have the HD set to master and the CD/DVD set to slave, but the
illustration that came with the CD drive indicates that I should set
that to master.

Any thoughts?

TIA,

Douglas
 
Building a new PC with son.

Installed components last night and have a question about the
slave/master settings on the hard drive and the CD/DVD drive. There
is no floppy at the present.

I have the HD set to master and the CD/DVD set to slave, but the
illustration that came with the CD drive indicates that I should set
that to master.

Any thoughts?

TIA,

Douglas
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Setup on a PC with one disk and one CDR is generally that the disk
is on the primary IDE channel and the CDR is on the secondary
channel and neither needs master/slave jumpers.

The few times I've shared an IDE channel on a modern mobo the
controller recognized the two devices and did the right thing, with no
jumpers in either device.
 
you have TWO ide channels so put the hard drive on the PRIMARY ide channel
and the dvd on the SECONDARY ide channel

Set both devices to MASTER
 
you must have used cable select

Al Dykes said:
Setup on a PC with one disk and one CDR is generally that the disk
is on the primary IDE channel and the CDR is on the secondary
channel and neither needs master/slave jumpers.

The few times I've shared an IDE channel on a modern mobo the
controller recognized the two devices and did the right thing, with no
jumpers in either device.

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a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m

Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
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you have TWO ide channels so put the hard drive on the PRIMARY ide channel
and the dvd on the SECONDARY ide channel

Set both devices to MASTER
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I have changed the setup as you suggested. Will let you know how it
works.

D.
 
you have TWO ide channels so put the hard drive on the PRIMARY ide channel
and the dvd on the SECONDARY ide channel

Set both devices to MASTER
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Now how would you setup the following configuration?

2 hard drives

1 DVD burner

1 CD burner

My main consideration here would be not to slow down the transer
speeds of the HD's with the slower DVD and or CD.

Thanks for the help.
 
Now how would you setup the following configuration?

2 hard drives

1 DVD burner

1 CD burner

My main consideration here would be not to slow down the transer
speeds of the HD's with the slower DVD and or CD.

Thanks for the help.
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Put them wherever you want.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html Doesn't matter
anymore.
If you want to copy on the fly, seperate the cd drives. But with
"burn-proof" et al, even that doesn't matter anymore.
 
Now how would you setup the following configuration?

2 hard drives

1 DVD burner

1 CD burner

My main consideration here would be not to slow down the transer
speeds of the HD's with the slower DVD and or CD.

Thanks for the help.
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Buy an add-on IDE card for a few bucks and give each of your
devices it's won channel.
 
Put them wherever you want.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html Doesn't matter
anymore.
If you want to copy on the fly, seperate the cd drives. But with
"burn-proof" et al, even that doesn't matter anymore.
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I should have mentioned that the second HD is kept in a removable
drawer and is not always present in the system.

Right now the CD burner is on the secondary master. When I insert the
second HD it of course becomes the primary sleeve. As such that HD
drops down to ATA 33 instead of ATA 100?
 
Buy an add-on IDE card for a few bucks and give each of your
devices it's won channel.
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You know adykes I think you have hit on the perfect solution. :-))

Thanks for the reply.
 
We'll keep telling em Bill.These Myths will continue but we are here
to put them straight :P
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Ok it does not go down to ATA 33 if that makes you happier. I am
making it all up.

But the problem was solved very easily. I have a Gigabyte 7DXR mobo.
Which has two RAID controllers. End of problem.
 
Kill Bill said:
 >>Put them wherever you want.
 >>http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html
Doesn't matter
 >>anymore.
 >>If you want to copy on the fly, seperate the cd
drives. But with
 >>"burn-proof" et al, even that doesn't matter anymore.
For the second time, no it doesn't.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confTiming-c.html
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I am building a new system with 1 HDD, 1FDD, 1 CD ROM and 1 DVD RW.
There are 2 IDE connectors, and one for the FDD, what config should
they be in?
Thanks
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