Running two Hard Drives off one IDE cable in Windows XP

[whizbangcrash]

I'm not familiar with your technical background, but i'll
start by asking do you know how to set up master and
slave drives? If not, read on.

Basically this is something you have to do so you can run
two HDs off a single IDE cable. Each hard drive has
unique jumper settings for master or slave mode, so
you'll have to take a look at the manual (if you got one)
or the notes on the HD itself.

I believe the master drive goes the middle (say you were
looking at the IDE cable, one end goes in the
motherboard, the other end goes into the slave drive, and
the middle one goes into the master). Your motherboard
is going to send signals down the IDE cable, and the
master drive is going to decide whether those signals are
intended for itself, or if they should continue down the
cable to the slave drive.

If you're having a problem getting bios to recognize your
other HD, that could be the problem.




~b






>-----Original Message-----
>Hey everyone,
>I am currently running windows xp on one of my hard
>drives and windows me on my second hardrive. At the
>moment I have to keep unplugging one of the other to use
>them. I would like to have them both running at the same
>time aswell as running my cdrw/dvd drive. My IDE cable
as
>3 plugs on it, so i plugged both hard drives onto it and
>then connected it to the controller on the motherboard,
>but my bios only detected one of my hard drives. Can i
>not do this then? Any help will be much appreciated.
>Thank you
>Lee
>.
>

[Jef Norton]

Hi whizbangcrash -

Almost...

The position on the cable only matters when both drives to be connected to
the cable have their jumper set to Cable Select.

When both drives are Cable Select, the Blue plug on one end of the cable
attaches to the motherboard, the Black plug on the other end of the cable
plugs into the Master drive, and the Grey plug in the middle of the cable
plugs into the Slave drive.

When the drives have their jumpers set to Master and Slave their position on
the cable is of no consequence.

Jef


"whizbangcrash" > wrote in message
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|
|
| I'm not familiar with your technical background, but i'll
| start by asking do you know how to set up master and
| slave drives? If not, read on.
|
| Basically this is something you have to do so you can run
| two HDs off a single IDE cable. Each hard drive has
| unique jumper settings for master or slave mode, so
| you'll have to take a look at the manual (if you got one)
| or the notes on the HD itself.
|
| I believe the master drive goes the middle (say you were
| looking at the IDE cable, one end goes in the
| motherboard, the other end goes into the slave drive, and
| the middle one goes into the master). Your motherboard
| is going to send signals down the IDE cable, and the
| master drive is going to decide whether those signals are
| intended for itself, or if they should continue down the
| cable to the slave drive.
|
| If you're having a problem getting bios to recognize your
| other HD, that could be the problem.
|
|
|
|
| ~b
|
|
|
|
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hey everyone,
| >I am currently running windows xp on one of my hard
| >drives and windows me on my second hardrive. At the
| >moment I have to keep unplugging one of the other to use
| >them. I would like to have them both running at the same
| >time aswell as running my cdrw/dvd drive. My IDE cable
| as
| >3 plugs on it, so i plugged both hard drives onto it and
| >then connected it to the controller on the motherboard,
| >but my bios only detected one of my hard drives. Can i
| >not do this then? Any help will be much appreciated.
| >Thank you
| >Lee
| >.
| >