ad11 won't recognize hd as master?

[Jumper]

When I have my Quantum fireball jumpered as master and the cdburner as slave, cmos shows no hdd and the burner as primary master. If I just have the hdd cabled, then it is listed as primary master? How do I get this to recognize correctly?
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[Goldwing]

You could try moving the CDRW to the secondary IDE channel as master. Which is probably a good idea anyway because if you are doing an image copy from the HD to the CDRW you will get better throughput. IDE likes to write one device on a channel at a time.

 

[Jumper]

I wanted to set it up that way but the cable won't reach to 2 cd drives, the distance is too great, I can only reach if I connect to the HD and then a CD drive.

 

[oc jason]

Definately move the CD burner to the dsecondary IDE cable-also if the HD is over ATA33-than i would recommend an 80pin wire insted of a 40pin wire-also once you move the CD burner set its jumper to slave

 

[Goldwing]

You may have to swap cd and cdrw locations in your case in order to have everything reach.

It would be better (for burning) to have the CDRW on a different channel than either the hd or cd-rom for the reasons I stated earlier for the hd.

Good luck

 

[Jumper]

Ok, I can only reach 1 CD drive because the supplied ribbon w/ the ad11 is too short to reach a 5" bay where the first connector plug is located on the ribbon, I can only use the connectors on the very ends of the cable to go from mb to drive. Can I buy longer cables? Should I send the HD back to Quantum? Does it matter if the HD is master or slave? Why doesn't the mb recognize the HD as master when I have it jumpered as master (it does recognize it as master if I jumper it as "cable select sl/ms" but only if I don't have anything else on that cable)? What is "cable select sl/ms" anyway? HELP!!!
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I JUST WENT TO THE QUANTUM (MAXTOR) SITE AND IT SHOWS THE JUMPER CONFIGS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT'S PRINTED ON THE HD ITSELF. i THINK I HAVE MY ANSWER BUT I'LL HAVE TO WAIT TILL I GET HOME TO FIND OUT.
SOUNDS LIKE I WANT THE CDROM (SLAVE) ON THE PRIMARY W/THE HD(MASTER) AND THE BURNER ON THE SECONDARY (MASTER), IS THAT CORRECT?

 

[tester]

you should be able to jump and place your eide devices however you want, but quantum is strange, like that. with quantum i found it is best to config both your jumpers to CS and place your drives accordingly, (CS )is cable select =position on cable, so end pos is master, mid position is slave, Each EIDE conector can have 2 devices, so 4 devices are possible, but each cable is independent in that each has the master slave relationship. CS just uses position to denote M/S. Win, by default, seeks the boot partition on the master device on the primary cable. watch jumper position, cause they are dif from HD to HD, quantum, may be no jumper = master? also,what is ideal is to get your udma devices on one or like speed cable if you have dif speeds. usually the ide speed reads at LCD sooo. good luck

 

[castle lager fan]

Hi Jumper,

I use an AD11 as well. I would run the two CD's on the secondary IDE channel and the HDD on the first. If the cable does not fit with your case buy a longer one for the CD's. The reason why you should NEVER have a HDD and CD on the same channel is that the controller negotiates with the devices on the channel(bus) and sets the speed of the channel to the speed of the slowest device. This means that your HDD will be running at ATA 33 with a CD on the channel. This is also true for SCSI systems. SO check the speed of devices you put on the same channel (bus).

 

[madnod]

hi i am looking forward to buy the FIC AD11 mobo,

so do u recommend it? i am planning to get it with a duron 750 and overclock it.
thanks in advance