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| 450359 | 2006-04-29 01:16:00 | If you have your HDD on IDE 1 & your CD ROM on IDE 2 and you then wish to add a DVD R/W, do you slave it to the HDD on IDE 1 or Slave/Master it on IDE 2? | B.M. (505) | ||
| 450360 | 2006-04-29 01:25:00 | Make it master on IDE2. If you want to keep your CDROM aswell, make that a slave on IDE2 | Greven (91) | ||
| 450361 | 2006-04-29 03:40:00 | I'd take the old CD drive out.Not really needed anymore.... | pctek (84) | ||
| 450362 | 2006-04-29 03:53:00 | Make the new drive master on IDE2 .. keep the old one, jumper it as slave, ideal for on-the-fly copying | Myth (110) | ||
| 450363 | 2006-04-29 05:07:00 | Don't add it to the IDE0 (computers count at zero) where your hard drive is, it will reduce it's performance. Add it to IDE1. You may need to move your cd drives around, but you should make the DVD drive the master and have it sit above the CDROM drive. It should get the top of the IDE cable while the CDROM drive gets the next connection. Make sure to jumper the DVD drive as master and slave the CDROM drive (usually no jumpers on it at all, but make sure to look hard on the back of the drive, as it'll have small letters printed on it, the other option is usually cable select). On the topic of using IDE, if you have PVC tape (insulation tape) and your IDE cables are not thin/folded, you may want to fold them. Some people use craft knifes to cut them (I suggest against this), I prefer just folding and taping them, saves cutting a wire accidently, especially in 80wire/40pin IDE ribbon cables where the ribs are so close to each other. What you do is fold it in half, then bring the outer edge to the center again, making another fold, and do the same with the other side. While you have that in your mind, make sure you get the fold correct so that plugging the connection into the drives/motherboard is easier, since you can fold it the wrong way. When folded, tape it with PVC tape, remember you won't be able to fold it completely to the connector, there will be about 30mm, which is ok, this won't get in your way. The cable should now be about 1/4 the size width, and probably only 5mm thick. This makes getting the IDE cable to where you want easier, and the cable takes up less space now. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 450364 | 2006-04-29 06:09:00 | Thanks Guys. :thumbs: | B.M. (505) | ||
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