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My Computer won't recognise my hard drive and my cdrom together on the same IDE cable. I know what yr thinking 'DUDD IDE CABLE' but bought brand new one and same problem. so we're thinking 'JUMPER SETTINGS WRONG' but I try cable select and it won't recognise anything, select slave and the cd rom disappears, select master and only cdrom is recognised.
Cdrom and hard drive work fine alone..no probs, however together and the hard drive goes crazy. The hard drive is set on 'master' and if I'm unwilling to select slave as this is my primary drive and I'm unsure of the jumper settings. I really don't think it could be the jumpers tho, and yet I have not any ideas what else it could be. Have tried switching drive to IDE2 and different cables but the same happens and the hard drive doesn't like other drives, cdroms etc...
Is my Hard drive odd or is there something I haven't thought of? Is it the jumpers? Is it the motherboard ? help...please
Check your jumpers again, especially on the hard drive. Some hard drives have a different setting for Master by itself and Master with Slave.
Leave cable select alone. Cable select is a legacy from the past and should not be needed for anything purchased in the last five years.
Stuart
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Ack!
Tried every combination possible in the jumpers on the hard drive, the cdrom wouldn't appear. Went to the hard drives website and couldn't get any of the suggested jumpet settings to work. help!
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If you only have a CD Rom and one HDD you could try setting both to Master and put the HDD on Primary IDE and the CD ROM on Secondary IDE, since you now have two IDE cables.:-)
Bob Mitchell.
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- Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
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true :)
however on the other ide cable i already have another hard drive and dvd rom drive. i would like to have a cd writer aswell but so far no can do
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I have to re-emphasize what Stuart said in reponse #1. It sounds like you have a Western Digital drive that has special plugging for drives that are alone on a channel or with another drive. Take a real close look at the plugging directions.
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i have maxtor 33073h3.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=457&p_created=985299592&p_sid=yVod-8Nh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PW1heHRvciAzMzA3M2gz&p_li=&p_topview=1
can't see anything u mention
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If that hard drive will not work with any other device connected along with it on a channel, I would conclude that it has some strange defect in the selection circuits.
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primary master = HDD w/OS
primary slave = optical reader
2ndary master = optical writer (burner)
2ndary slave = 2nd HDDUse master & slave jumer as needed. Do NOT use cable select...EVER!
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
8.5 x 200MHz
1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro SP1
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jumer = jumper ;)
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
8.5 x 200MHz
1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro SP1
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In cmos/bios setup, set the drive type of the port the cdrom is connected to as NONE.
Also you can try swapping their positions on the data cable.
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