Lori A. Kuiper said:
I have a 120 GB Western Digital IDE drive. It came with the jumpers set
for CS. I was told to pull the jumpers so it would be set to single drive.
I did originally install it with the jumpers set to CS and then switched
it.
If I switch it back to CS now will it cause problems? Is CS the preferred
setting for newer WD drives?
Would really appreciate your help. I am having some trouble getting my
PC--Abit NF7-S v2 MB with AMD Barton 2500+ processor to properly recognize
my dual DVD RW/CD RW drive. I have it on IDE 2 now, but it does not seem
to be properly recognizing the DVD drive. It did when I originally
installed it, but then I changed the jumpers on WD HD and wrote 0's to my
drive and now have problems.
Lori:
You're posing a query that has really nothing to do with the subject-named
thread. It really confuses things when one does this. Next time, please use
a different subject-name if your query is not *directly* related to the
issue being discussed.
Anyway, I've snipped the postings that are not relevant to your problem, so
let's start fresh...
With respect to your 120 GB Western Digital drive. You can use the Cable
Select setting with this drive as long as you connect it to the end
connector of its IDE data cable. Naturally if another device is on that same
cable, it will be also jumpered as CS and connected to the middle connector
of the IDE cable. You could alternately connect (jumper) that WD drive as
Single if it was the *only* device on the IDE cable. The Master jumper
setting on that drive could be used only if there's *another* device
(jumpered as Slave, of course) on that IDE cable.
You say you "wrote 0's to my drive and now have problems". It's hard to
understand what's happening here. Why did you "zap" the drive? Have you
installed XP on that drive? What problems are you experiencing with the HD?
As to the problems you're experiencing with your optical drive -- please
provide some more details.Are you sure it's connected/jumpered correctly?
You say "I have it on IDE 2 now". Does that mean you changed its original
connection? Again, are you sure it's connected/jumpered correctly?
Anna