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Hard disk and cd-rom jumper setting
Name: g.burrows Date: February 20, 2004 at 07:05:05 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: p3-128mb
Comment:
Hi My friend has got into a bit of a mess with his pc. Does the hard drive jumper have to be set to master? Does the cd-rom have to be set as slave? He only has these two pieces of hardware attached to his pc.
Name: Mathew L T Date: February 20, 2004 at 07:28:54 Pacific
Reply:
There are two IDE slots on the motherboard, Primary and Secondary, the HDD should be set as Master and connected to the Primary IDE. The cd-rom should be set as Master and connected to the Secondary IDE slot. HTH Mathew
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Response Number 2
Name: Tubesandwires Date: February 20, 2004 at 08:22:41 Pacific
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If you have a hard drive data cable with 80 wires, or any data cable with more than one color of connector, or that has labeling on it e.g. Master near connector, Slave near another, see this:
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