Extra Hard Drive Not Found????????????

Hello all. After much hair pulling, swearing, jumping up and down and various other methods of generally not being happy, i finally got my old pc running again. C:\ and cd drive working fine thru primary ide. No probs with secondary ide as long as i attach 1 hard drive. If i attach a second drive it is not found. I have tried swapping ide cables and power plugs. Both of the drives work as long as only 1 of them is attached. I have tried them in various combinations with different cables. Please help if you can as this is baffling the hell out of me. I am running xp pro sp2.cry

 

or "cs" setting. my home comp, didn't like master/slave combo (but, mine was on the same cable). - sos

 

If you use the CS jumper setting, you must use 80 conductor/40 pin Ultra ATA data cables. (If this is an "old" machine, you may have 40 conductor/40 pin cables in it.)

Here's a good guide; http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/Singl-Master-and-Slave-Drives-and-Jumpering.htm?1

 

For IDE hard drive as well as cd/dvdrom drives here are the rules:
1. Master drive goes on the terminating end of the ribbon.
2. Slave goes in the middle.
3. Jumpers must be set correctly as master with slave/master alone or just plain master (depending on the hard drive type) and slave for both drives to work together.

If your not familiar with drive jumpers there is usually a legend on top of the drive that will describe the positions and the pins that need to be connected. On the back of the drive usually near the power connection you will see sets of pins ::::. and depending on where you place the little plasic jumper, the drive will be set to what the legend describes for that position. If there is a pin alone as I indicated with the little pins diagram its for when the slave setting is actually no jumper at all, you can put the plastic jumper on the single pin for safe keeping while not actually connecting anything.

 

This scenario only applies to CS jumper settings. Contrary to popular belief, if you're using Master/Slave jumper positions, the drive can go on either cable connector.

 

Thats not true, as a matter of fact CS or Cable Select is named that way because it automatically sets the end ribbon drive to master and middle drive to slave for you (if both drives are set as CS anyway). And I have seen so many problems solved when they get this rule right it seems your the one who has the wrong unpopular belief. Maybe 1 out of 50 systems have an autocheck embedded in their chipset to set the OS drive as master no matter where it is and on those it seems to work but is still not correct.

 

I don't refute this. I said the same thing;

From; http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/Singl-Master-and-Slave-Drives-and-Jumpering.htm

And from; http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confJumpering-c.html (Basically the same article, but older.)

There are documents which state differently, due to standardization factors, but this is the only reason. I've done it, many times, because of drive placement in different towers. I always use M/S settings over CS. Try it before you state that I'm wrong.