My motherboard’s second IDE port is not working, so I had to buy an IDE PCI card so that I can hook up two additional hard drives to my computer. The problem is, I’m not too sure how the jumpers should be setup on the two new hard drives that I am installing. Should the jumpers on the two new hard rives be taken out completely (so as to make them slaves,) or should they be set to “cable select?”
2007-04-14 00:48:01 · 2 answers · asked by gcgipson 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The new PC card has an independent IDE channel.
Each IDE channel on a PC is capable of having one Master & one Slave connection via the same IDE cable.
The two hard drives connected to it must be set as Master & Slave (respectively) in order to work properly.
Leave the hard drive settings on your Primary IDE connection (from the mainboard) as they are.
regards,
Philip T
2007-04-14 03:46:42 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi gcgipson,
Since your master is already set I would set both new drives as slaves. I would be leery of the cable select function going through a PCI card.
Norm
2007-04-14 08:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋