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Connecting a Slave Hard Drive

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by remoramsu

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Hi all
Im working on a system which has a 80GB seagate hard drive.But i tried to connect another 40GB Samsung hard drive as a slave.Even though i have connected it properly...my system is not recognising both of the hard drives....but if i remove the samsung harddrive and retain the seagate harddrive (80GB) its working properly.i don no whr the problem is.....pls help me to find the solution for this...
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by dumphrey

check the jumper settings on both drives. Putting both of them on CS (cable select) should work, but in some rare cases you may need to specify a master and a slave through the jumpers.

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/u5_family_1.gif

Samsung
http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?PG_ID=1&AT_ID=5549&PROD_SUB_ID=26&PROD_ID=-1

Keep in mind these are only general guidelines for each product. The HDs should have a label on them explaining the settings. Also googleing Seagate (model number of Hard drive) ata jumper settings should get more specific help.

Edit: When you boot the computer into setup (f2, or f12, or del usually) are the hard drives listed and seen by the bios?

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