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by jamescr

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My current primary hard drive, a WD400eb OEM,
and is reaching the end of its MTF. My secondary drive is a Diamond mas plus9 6Y080P0
80GB ultra133 7200RPM 8mb. Obviously a larger drive and about one and half years of use.
My question is that I intend to still use the
older drive so I switched places with both drives. I know that if two drives are on one controler than both drives have to have the jumper pins configured as Cable select. I thout that the first drive using the first
ata contoller cable. But when I switched everything out and I rebooted it came back
as if nothing had changed. Primary the WD and secondayr the 6y080p0. Highly confused.

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by samyali202

Hi james!
I think there is no peoblem to set your Hard Drives jumbers as well as your Motherboard not too old , to do that follow the procedure please.
1.Connect yor IDE cable to Primary Slot in MotherBoard
2.Set The Jumber of Active Hard Drive (WD400eb) to Master, you can find Instructions in back of the Hard Drive
3.Set The New Hard Drive to Slave position also read the Instructions in back of th HDD
4. Coonect The 1st Hard Drive "the one has the Operating System" to the other End of the IDE Cable.
5.Connect the new Hard Drive to the Middle Plug in IDE cable.
6. go to Computer Managment by right click on My computer then choose Manage
7. Click on Disk managment .
8. you will find the New hard Drive in right panel nomberd as Disk1 and old Hard Disk nomberd as Disk0
9. I suppose if procedures gose like that you can manage your New Hard Disk

by jamescr

So what you are saying is that I need to set them up as a master and slave scenario?
I want to make the new hardrive drive(0)-
Primary and the WD as Drive(1)-Secondary.
As far as the 40-pin connection I followed
the normal prcedure making the first connection the the maxtor drive(6y080p0) and the second connector to the older drive the Wd400eb. The computer still recognized the middle 40 pin cabled one as primary. Is
this because it still has the operating system on it?

by ozi eagle

Hi,

If you are using a 40 pin / 40 wire IDE cable, then the odds are that cable select won't work. My experience is that cables that do work cable select have MASTER and SLAVE marked on the cable.

I would suggest trying to set both drives to the configuration you want, ie master and slave.

It is best to have the master at the end of the cable and the slave in the middle, because the master drive has termination resistors for the cable, to stop echos on the cable and hence read / write problems.

Herb

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