What pins do I put a jumper on to make my second hardrive a slave?

Question

I'm not sure what kind it is yet but I will find out soon. If you need to know tell me and please check back in like five minutes I'll add the details thank you very much.

Answer 1

Depending on the age of the HD, some older HD's did not depict any hint as to what the pin settings were, instead they printed on the bottom of the circuit card near the pins MA, SL, CS. Some of the newer ones also have this feature when they do not have the sticker on them that shows the correct pin setting.

If you locate the CS on both drives and place the slave closet to the MB and master last, when you boot up enter BIOS (SETUP) and set the HD's to auto and your computer will recognise them automatically. That way your main drive will be master and your addin HD slave.
Enter BIOS (Setup) by manufacturer here:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

However some motherboards do not like CS mode. Try CS mode first and if it is a bust, then set the Main drive you want to boot from as MA on the last connector on the ribbon and the slave as SL on the middle connector on the ribbon cable.

Ensure you are using a 80-wire ribbon cable, If you are installing a hard disk that was made within the last eight years, you'll want to use the 80-wire ribbon cable, and the red wire is going to pin 1. Check last link.

Here are some links on adding a second HD to the primary channel.

Last link cover SATA and ATA HD's

Hope this helped

Answer 2

On the back of the harddrive where the power supply cable, and the IDE, or SATA ribbon cable plug's in, are a set of pins.
Sometimes, but not always on top of the harddrive it shows an illustration of which two pins must have the little rectangular jumper, to put the HD. in Master mode, or Slave mode, or Cable Select mode. But since this is not always the case, and if your HD. didn't come with set-up instructions, 'google' the web with the manufacturer's name, and look for your model of HD. They should also show you the jumper configurations.

Answer 3

Each make has a different pin configuration. I have found Cable Select to be nothing but trouble the few times I've used it. And if you're going to go through the trouble to find out which pins are for CS anyway, you ought to just find the pin for slave. It's also sometimes printed on the PCB on the underside of the drive.

Answer 4

Look at the back of your hard drive, there's a diagram that show you. You don't actually need to set your Jumper on the drive if it has a Cable select (CS) settings (Which should be the default settings on the hard drive). With the Cable select on, the cable will automatically determine if the drive is a master or slave depends on where you connect it to the cable.

Answer 5

There'll be a jumper pin diagram on the hard drive. It's different for different makes.

Answer 6

look on the hard drive, there will be a diagram telling you which pin to jump to make it a slave

Answer 7

It varies from drive to drive.


Almost all the drives I have seen have a diagram on the top label, or labeling on the jumper connector.

If all else fails, try the manufacturer's web site.

Answer 8

there should be a picture on the hard telling you where is the slave or master pins

or there is marks a little above the pins

Answer 9

it depends on the hardrive and on the label it should say. but if you just want t asecond hardrive then just put both on cable select.

Answer 10

Just put it on CS (Cable Select) and set it up through your BIOS. This way it's easier if you ever need to change it again.