Quick IDE Cable Question

Huh?

The master is at the end, the slave is at the middle.

That's if you set the jumpers on the drives to cable select. Because of the way my drives are positioned the device I have as the master is actually in the middle of the cable. The position only matters if you set the jumpers to cable select; otherwise it will happily do whatever you tell it to.

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Original post by nagromo That's if you set the jumpers on the drives to cable select. Because of the way my drives are positioned the device I have as the master is actually in the middle of the cable. The position only matters if you set the jumpers to cable select; otherwise it will happily do whatever you tell it to.

That's not always true. I have come across MBs that have delt with master/slave settings strangely, no matter the settings.

I was just about to say that it seems to matter, and in the case of the master and slave being where you said i have done it 100% wrong, no wonder windows isn't picking up the disc drives, although BIOS does,

thanx all.

ace

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Original post by vNistelrooy The master is at the end, the slave is at the middle.

Unless something is really screwy this is correct. It took me awhile to finnaly commit that one to memory myself.