Reading HD IDE as Slave without Master

[Alessandro]

Hi all,

I guess it's impossible, but I have an old IDE hd (Quantum Sirocco), without
jumpers - so set as Slave - I'd like to read on a motherboard without any
other Master IDE device.

Unofrtunately I can't set it as Master, I don't have a suitable jumper
because it has an odd configuration, not the classical one with the row of 4
couples of pins (in this case I'd have the jumper), but a "strange" row with
3 single pins (???).

Any suggestions ? Apart of course looking for a IDE device to be set as
Master ...

Thanks all
Ale

 

[Pen]

Hi all,

I guess it's impossible, but I have an old IDE hd (Quantum Sirocco), without
jumpers - so set as Slave - I'd like to read on a motherboard without any
other Master IDE device.

Unofrtunately I can't set it as Master, I don't have a suitable jumper
because it has an odd configuration, not the classical one with the row of 4
couples of pins (in this case I'd have the jumper), but a "strange" row with
3 single pins (???).

Any suggestions ? Apart of course looking for a IDE device to be set as
Master ...

Thanks all
Ale

Have a look here, the jumper pins are on the drive circuit
board not the rear panel.
http://www.mfarris.com/hard_drives/quantum/quantum_sirocco_1700at.html

 

[John McGaw]

Hi all,

I guess it's impossible, but I have an old IDE hd (Quantum Sirocco), without
jumpers - so set as Slave - I'd like to read on a motherboard without any
other Master IDE device.

Unofrtunately I can't set it as Master, I don't have a suitable jumper
because it has an odd configuration, not the classical one with the row of 4
couples of pins (in this case I'd have the jumper), but a "strange" row with
3 single pins (???).

Any suggestions ? Apart of course looking for a IDE device to be set as
Master ...

Thanks all
Ale

Silly question, perhaps, but have you tried installing the drive just as it
is to see what happens? I'm pretty certain that I've had "slave" drives in
machines with no "master" and have had it work, especially during
troubleshooting and testing. You have little to lose besides a few minutes
of your time...

 

[Alessandro]

On 7/3/2010 6:46 PM, Alessandro wrote:

Have a look here, the jumper pins are on the drive circuit
board not the rear panel.
http://www.mfarris.com/hard_drives/quantum/quantum_sirocco_1700at.html

Great ... many thanks, you are right, but jumper is set already on Master,
anyway I can't view it either in Windows ot in BIOS.
I've tried also a manual setting in BIOS instead of Auto, defining CHS ... I
can't view it the same!

Any suggestion for this thing ?

Thanks
Ale

 

[Pen]

Great ... many thanks, you are right, but jumper is set already on Master,
anyway I can't view it either in Windows ot in BIOS.
I've tried also a manual setting in BIOS instead of Auto, defining CHS ... I
can't view it the same!

Any suggestion for this thing ?

Thanks
Ale
The only thing you could try would be a different cable in

case the present one is bad. If you you don't have one then
perhaps you could try another drive on that set of cables.
Otherwise it means the drive is dead.

 

[Joel]

Hi all,

I guess it's impossible, but I have an old IDE hd (Quantum Sirocco), without
jumpers - so set as Slave - I'd like to read on a motherboard without any
other Master IDE device.

Unofrtunately I can't set it as Master, I don't have a suitable jumper
because it has an odd configuration, not the classical one with the row of 4
couples of pins (in this case I'd have the jumper), but a "strange" row with
3 single pins (???).

Any suggestions ? Apart of course looking for a IDE device to be set as
Master ...

Thanks all
Ale

I don't know how old yours is and what you do at your end. But as far as
I can remember which go back somewhere around early 80's (even I was working
with hard drive way back in early 70's but never owned one to know for
sure). And all HDs I have pretty much

- MASTER = no jumper

- MASTER *if* there is a SLAVE (dual HDs)

- SLAVE *if* there is a MASTER

- RESERVED I never tried to know what it's.

Some has 3-set and some has 4-set of PINs