Fitting a Hard Drive/ CDRW etc

[JesperAudi]

Hi Folks

I've an old Mesh running W98SE I think its an phoenix/alert motherboard.

I was playing (?!) with the IDE cables now appear to have them connected the wrong way and cannot get everything to work ok.

There are two primary and two secondary connectors and I've three cables all capable of being connected at the middle or end.

I've One HDD, a CD ROM, and a CDRW

a) What is the best way to connect them and
b) what slave/ master connections should I use?
c) if I added a second HDD how would this differ?

ps if anyone suggests the HDD be coinnected to the middle and the cdrw to the end on the primary connection, I am not sure it will stretch that far


Are there any helpful websites that would explain all this?

Thanks Jesper

[snowmonkey]

Here are some answers:

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/...ct_ide_hd.html


Cheers

[Southern]

...is really easy if you know what you're doing.

Just set all the jumpers on the HDDs and CD drives to "cable select" and plug them all in. Then depending on which IDE cable plug has been plugged into each device, the cable will determine whether it is "master" or "slave" in that IDE channel. Usually the cable will say which plug (middle or end) is Master or Slave and afterwards you can set the jumpers for the drives up accordingly. There should be a diagram on a sticker on the back of each HDD or CD drive to tell you how to set up the jumpers.

[JesperAudi]

Thats an interesting one, I never knew that was what cable select meant. I will try that!

Cheers

Jesper

Originally Posted by Southern

...is really easy if you know what you're doing.

Just set all the jumpers on the HDDs and CD drives to "cable select" and plug them all in. Then depending on which IDE cable plug has been plugged into each device, the cable will determine whether it is "master" or "slave" in that IDE channel. Usually the cable will say which plug (middle or end) is Master or Slave and afterwards you can set the jumpers for the drives up accordingly. There should be a diagram on a sticker on the back of each HDD or CD drive to tell you how to set up the jumpers.