I have fitted it into a 3.5 slot and there is a cable (SCSI I believe?)running from the DVD drive above to the slave socket on the motherboard, with a connector part way down in a way as though it is meant for the secondary drive should one be fitted.
The power cable was no problem but the jumper cable is troubling me, it has 8 holes where there are 10 pins.
when I started the computer it would read neither the DVD drive or the new drive. Do I need to buy any cables?
I have a packard Bell Imedia 1517.
2006-09-09 20:36:55 · 4 answers · asked by Dave L 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Look at the jumper pins. on the case of the drive will be written somewhere a configuration. You can have two devices on one cable, but one must be jumpered as a master and the other one a slave. On the DVD the pins will have something like MA SL CS written there. MA is master, SL is Slave and CS is cable select. For your own samity don't use CS. SO check the drive jumper it as say a master and jumper your DVD as a slave.
Hope this helps.
2006-09-09 20:42:10 · answer #1 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is very easy and simple
leave all jumpers and pin settins as they were before you bought the second drive
now just remove the jumper on new drive, it is located at the back of the drive next to the power connector, this jumper is used to make the drive a 'master' drive and seeing the cable already has a 'master' drive- the DVD- like the saying goes 'No Man can serve two masters' neither can the computer "see" two masters
once you have removed the jumper (White or Black) plug in the drive and enjoy. because you are adding hardware the bios or boot routine should acknowledge the new drive and ask you to confirm it presence.
2006-09-09 20:50:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
refer the website www.buildyourpc.com or see the jumper settings on your new hard disk.
2006-09-09 20:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Shreyo G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read this it should make it all clear ...
http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/
2006-09-09 20:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by bluebottle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋