just bought a new hdd and the jumper settings for master\slave\cs are a bit different to what i have been used to ie the 1st one says DS (master) second one says CS enabled third says cap limit up on top it says no jumper=DS (slave)

Most drives I have worked on use the jumper, usually in the first position, for Master, and leave the jumper off or turned sideways for Slave. Yours says to take it off for Slave. I usually just put it on one pin, to prevent it from getting lost. (You may need it to set it as the Master later on.) The CS means Cable Select, and is hardly used anymore. If you had two drives on the same cable, the one on the very end would be the Master, and the one further back is the Slave. The best setup is to use the jumpers. Better yet, put each hard drive on a separate channel, both as Master. Anything else will slow your system down. I hope this helps. :) Bob

"put each hard drive on a separate channel, both as Master. Anything else will slow your system down" Not exactly correct. You should try to configure your IDE devices so that data transfers are primarily across channels, rather than between two devices sharing the same cable/channel. The reason is that only one device can use a channel at a time, so if two devices (A & B) share the same channel, device B has to wait until device A is done before it can begin using the channel. For example, if you have a CD-ROM & CD burner, & like to copy discs "on the fly", the CD-ROM should be the primary slave & the CD burner should be the 2ndary master. Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

I concur with jam. It's called "Peer Concurrency". As he stated in his example, it really depends on how you use your system. (A CDROM drive is slower than a HDD, a HDD is slower than memory, memory is slower than the CPU.) The two devices you use most should be on different IDE (or EIDE) channels so they may "talk to each other" faster.

I have 2 HDD,s a cd-rw and 2 dvd burners the hdd is master on primary channel dvd burner and cd-rw are master\slave on secondry channel then i have the other dvd writer on a pci ide card .. so im looking for somewhere to put other hardrive.. this is a self-build computer all other hardrives i have ever installed have master\slave\cable select but the settings on this one is different as posted above... i was thinking of putting my new hdd on primary channel as slave to other hdd will this slow my system down a lot or would i be better putting my new hdd on my pci ide card along with my dvd writer hope everyone can follow this

to make it easer i have 2 hardrives 1 cd writer 2 dvd burners only 2 ide channels and one ide pci card i never burn on the fly (not a good idea) which setup do you think is best (btw one of the dvd writers is only used for testing so it dont matter if its on the ide pci card)

I need help. I have 1 hard drive with 2 DVD R/RW burners hard drive is showing on secoundary. haveing problems with jumper settings. Can I set both burners as slave ?. if not can you please tell me the order. My Mad Dog is going to do most of the burning. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!.