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hard drive pin configuration - cable select ?
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<blockquote data-quote="stealthpirate" data-source="post: 161450" data-attributes="member: 199149"><p>Primary and secondary IDE channels can have a Master and a Slave on each Channel, or a Master or Single on each channel (not a slave alone on one channel, though it would prolly work).</p><p>The cable you have is a 80 pin udma cable for transfer rate above 33mb.s, i.e 66/100mb.s mainly for faster hard drives and 'some' dvd-roms (most cd/dvd are 33mb.s max) this should have a blue/grey/black connector....</p><p>(If the connection on your mobo is blue it will support udma 66/100)</p><p>Blue to mobo</p><p>black to master or single (only 1 device) drive (hard drive or DVD)</p><p>Grey to slave (only on same channel as master, poss 2nd HD or CD/DVD rom)</p><p>Can repeat on both channels</p><p>possible combo's</p><p>Primary = master hard drive * secondary = master cd-rom.</p><p>primary = master h/drive, slave = 2nd h/drive * secondary = master dvd-rom, slave cd/rom.</p><p>H/drive is always primary master.</p><p>Just to add.... if you put the ide cable in the wrong way round, it won't work, if you put the 4 pin power connector in the wrong way round it'll fry the device!, and always plug and unplug stuff with the power OFF! (even keyboard & mouse), no need to power down to plug/unplug USB devices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stealthpirate, post: 161450, member: 199149"] Primary and secondary IDE channels can have a Master and a Slave on each Channel, or a Master or Single on each channel (not a slave alone on one channel, though it would prolly work). The cable you have is a 80 pin udma cable for transfer rate above 33mb.s, i.e 66/100mb.s mainly for faster hard drives and 'some' dvd-roms (most cd/dvd are 33mb.s max) this should have a blue/grey/black connector.... (If the connection on your mobo is blue it will support udma 66/100) Blue to mobo black to master or single (only 1 device) drive (hard drive or DVD) Grey to slave (only on same channel as master, poss 2nd HD or CD/DVD rom) Can repeat on both channels possible combo's Primary = master hard drive * secondary = master cd-rom. primary = master h/drive, slave = 2nd h/drive * secondary = master dvd-rom, slave cd/rom. H/drive is always primary master. Just to add.... if you put the ide cable in the wrong way round, it won't work, if you put the 4 pin power connector in the wrong way round it'll fry the device!, and always plug and unplug stuff with the power OFF! (even keyboard & mouse), no need to power down to plug/unplug USB devices. [/QUOTE]
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