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Connecting 2 Hard Drives

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by lil' frog 1 view

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Hello,

Im trying to hook up 2 hard drives to my pc. the first is a 8 gig and the second is a 4.3 gig. When i hook them up they wont fire up unless the IDE cables are unhooked from them.
NE thoughts u have would b gr8ly appreciated.
plz reply ASAP
thx
lil' Frog

p.s. i dont no how many points to give so i just did 225.

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by sgt_shultz

change jumper settings on drive. so one drive is 'master' and one drive is 'slave'
for test, disconnect all other ide devices (prbly just cdrom drive). then connect your 2 drives on SAME ide cable. see if that helps...

by colin_mendonca

might be there are other devices connected to the same cable besides HDD.disconnect those devices and let only the hdd's be connected to the cahbles .set one drive to master and the other to slave(jumper setting) and do the changes in the cmos setupalso & save the settings.

by lil' frog

thx neway but i asked some1 else and they said that my IDE controllers are shot so i need another motherboard my current one is for the AMD K6-2 series chip.

by fred07

Hi,
Basics; ide cable has three ide connectors. We shall for example use a 24" cable; end one to MB and about 15" to middle connector which is for SLAVE HD and another 9" to far end which is MASTER
This is the Cable Select auto setup which I use even when I set the HD jumpers to slave and master as I do not use cable select.
Now the tough part; The sizes of the HD's mean to me that they are older HD's. If they are not of the same mfg then you may have to use double jumpersas described in Western Digitals FACS. Some older drives will NOT work in conjunction with other makes.
Out of my memory, Seagate and Maxtor, or Quantum and WD without the double jumpers.
Hope this helps.

by lil' frog

thx neway but i asked some1 else and they said that my IDE controllers are shot so i need another motherboard my current one is for the AMD K6-2 series chip.

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