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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | IDE issue - big time!!! a must read if you have a slim drive |
Hello,  no no no, this can't be happening. Brand new dual layer DVD RW ( the slim type) with no jumper to set it from master to slave. What can I do to use it? Please help 
I was thinking I could get a I/O card and have them as both masters but don't know if this would work in software terms or that if there is a pach for intall on a slave HDD. or how do you make these cheaky littel slim drives slave? Thanks for your time, Edward. |
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| Author: | brendan [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IDE issue - big time!!! a must read if you have a slim d |
slim drive? -brendan |
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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:16 am ] |
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The drives that go into laptops. Would having both the hard drive on one ide contr and the dvd rw drive on a another (I/O card) work? but they both would be seprate masters. Edward. |
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| Author: | cesman [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:24 pm ] |
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Ahhh... Cable select. |
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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:13 pm ] |
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cesman wrote: Ahhh... Cable select.
I wish it was that simple but there is no jumper on them slim drives. If you where making a drive with no jumper would you set it to CS or DS (Master) hmm let me think. How stupid is that. Well any way, in the next alpha or beta if it maybe? Will it support Slave HDD and Master CD drive? 
Thanks for your time and input, Edward. |
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| Author: | Grooby [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:28 pm ] |
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so if the HD is forced to master, then it won't work? |
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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:51 pm ] |
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crazy stuff I know. If you force the HD to master they just conflict and the bios crash's has any one got any throught's on how to get the software to work on a master cd drive with slave hard drive? |
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| Author: | Grooby [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:38 pm ] |
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just out of curiousity..what kind of slimCD drive did you get? brand/model number. |
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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:49 pm ] |
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http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=170485 90quid and no jumper what's the world coming to?
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| Author: | Grooby [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:04 pm ] |
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I am assuming there's an adaptor that hook this up to the IDE cable? or no? if so, can you find one that might be able to toggle between master/slave? |
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| Author: | victor [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:22 pm ] |
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yers there is, thanks I already throught of that thro and I can't find one. If you can please tell! |
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| Author: | tjc [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:26 pm ] |
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Victor - relax. breath, ... Do you have two separate IDE channels on you motherboard? (i.e. 2 IDE connectors) If so, can you put the optical drive on the secondary channel and a hard drive or drives on the primary. Historically this was the prefered configuration since the slowest device on a channel (usually an optical drive) would limit the speed of the IDE channel. |
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| Author: | victor [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:45 am ] |
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My luke must be so bad! No I don't have 2 IDE's only one on the micro-ITX. |
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| Author: | Liv2Cod [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:06 pm ] |
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You probably need to use "cable select". You must enable cable select on BOTH drives -- it does not work if you set one as "master" and the other as cable select. You must also have a SPECIAL cable -- it has a blue connector on the motherboard end and grey and black connectors on the drive end. The last connector on the cable is the master, the one in the middle is the slave. |
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| Author: | victor [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:40 pm ] |
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no, no. you don't understand, there is NO jumper on the cd drive at all. you can only set the HDD and I have one of them ide cables Thanks for the input through, Edward.  I'm not having very much luke on this project!
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