IDE cable

[mrm1957]

Quick question on IDE cable.
When I hook this to mobo can I run it to the HDD as primary
and the CDROM as the slave ?

[Cown]

Sure you can, just make sure your jumpers are set right. etc your harddrive needs to be set to master and your CD-Rom to slave...

[mrm1957]

Thanks Cown,
I thought so it just slipped my memory at the moment or should
I say CRS disease again. Can't Remeber S___.

[Cown]

;)

[Perhaps?]

Hey im glad someone asked this question cause my friend has an intel motherboard system and it came with an ide cable running to the hd and a ide cable running to his only cd rom. He bought a rounded ide cable and thought he could use one for both devices (actually I thought he could) However when I hooked up hd as primary master and cd rom as primary slave the comp wouldnt boot. I think its because of his jumpers on the motherboard like crown mentioned but how do I change this jumper so it will just use one ide cable? Thanks

[Xantec]

Originally posted by Perhaps?
Hey im glad someone asked this question cause my friend has an intel motherboard system and it came with an ide cable running to the hd and a ide cable running to his only cd rom. He bought a rounded ide cable and thought he could use one for both devices (actually I thought he could) However when I hooked up hd as primary master and cd rom as primary slave the comp wouldnt boot. I think its because of his jumpers on the motherboard like crown mentioned but how do I change this jumper so it will just use one ide cable? Thanks

if your friend only has 2 internal drives, and you didn't want to put them on one cable together for an upgrade, leaving them separate would prolly be a better idea, as the IDE bus is not duplex (only one device can use the bus, which ever one its connected to, at one time). leaving them on separate buses will therefore allow you to run both drives at once (making software installations, or if the cdrom is a burner, making burns faster and more reliable - reduces the risk of buffer underruns)