ide cable

hi all, i'm still working on a friends comp. on the ide cable, is there a master/slave for the cable? i know i've seen 1 labeled before, but i forgot. they have 2 h/d's i'm just trying to put it all back together after i reinstalled their os. thx, sos

 

there are jumpers on the drive that set the master or slave state they look roughly like this
[:] the first plug on the cable is generally set as master the slave is the last plug on the very end "alltho I have seen this reversed" the there should be a set of pins next to the ide cable port on the drive that look something like this :::: the drive usely has a diagram showing what jumpers need to be set for master or slave place the jumper on the correct pin set so ":[:]:: " note all drives have different pin setups

 

If the IDE cable is 40 conductor/40 Pin, you must set the hard disk jumpers to Master or Slave positions. Either drive can be on any cable connector. End or middle, it doesn't matter. (CS disk jumpering will not work with a 40 conductor cable.)

If the IDE cable is 80 conductor/40 Pin, then the CS jumper positions can be used (I recommend Master/Slave jumper settings). In this case (CS jumpering), the Master drive is located on the end of the cable with the Slave located on the middle connector.
NOTE: If you use Master/Slave disk jumpering, contrary to popular belief (and even some documentaion I've seen) drive/connector placement doesn't matter. I've seen machines with the middle cable connector on the motherboard, and the drives on the ends of the cable.


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

 

thx, for the link dan penny. i've been working on this computer for like 3 days now, and i've been fighting 2 seperate problems. i didn't know it was 2 problems until i got it all worked out.

1st problem - h/d not recognized in bios or when i tried to reinstall xp. after a long while of messing around with it i finally went to the m/b site (gigabyte), and got the manual, and looked at the drawing for the m/b. i found that somebody moved the ide cable to slot #3, so it did not recognize the h/d(s) in the bios. the way they had it configured, windows would boot up, but i couldn't reinstall the os (with either h/d set as master). i wound up using an old ide cable that i had (a single). between the new cable and me moving the cable on the m/b, it finally recognized it, and i was able to reinstall the os.

2nd problem - it turns out that they had a bad ide cable. when i hooked up both h/d's it would not boot up (thus me asking about the master/slave of the cable). i know my comp doesn't like the master/slave configuration for the h/d's, i have to use cs. i wasn't sure that this was the case with their comp.

this comp was a major pita!! i mean i tried 1 h/d, then the other h/d, then 2 h/d's, old cable, new cable (single), etc.. it also didn't help me that the h/d's werent seen in the bios. anyway, all is good now!! :major

 

Good to hear it's all straightened out.