Your motherboard has two IDE connectors:
IDE1: Primary IDE
IDE2: Secondary IDE
Connected to each IDE is a cable with three connectors:
Blue: IDE connector on motherboard
Gray: 2nd drive (slave drive)
Black: 1st drive (master drive)
Note: current ATA 66/100/133 hard drives require an 80-conductor IDE cable. Older hard drives and CDROM drives work with either the older 40-conductor or new 80-conductor IDE cables. Side by side the 80-conductor IDE cables have the same connectors as the 40-conductor cables but will appear to have smaller finer wires.
Hard drives and CDROM drives can be jumpered three different ways:
Master
Slave
Cable Select
Also, instead of just a Master jumper position some manufacturers have:
Master without Slave (or single)
Master with Slave
Using Master and Slave jumpers the jumpers determine which drive is the master and which drive is the slave.
If you jumper each drive to Cable Select then the drive connected to the Black end connector is the master and the drive connected to the Gray middle connector is the slave drive.
A lot of times the jumper definitions are on a label on the drive. If not you can get this info from the manufacturers web site.
Whether you use Master/Slave or Cable Select depends upon the motherboard. Consult your user manual or look at the current drives to see how they are set up.
If you have one hard drive and one CDROM then you usually connect the hard drive to the 1st drive connector on IDE1 and the CDROM to the 1st drive connector on IDE2. You can connect a second hard drive in a several ways:
Example 1:
IDE1:
Master: 1st hard drive
Slave: 2nd hard drive
IDE2:
Master: CDROM drive
Slave:
Example 2:
IDE1:
Master: 1st hard drive
Slave:
IDE2:
Master: 2nd hard drive
Slave: CDROM drive
The first example gives slightly faster transfer between the hard drives and the CDROM drive. The second example gives slightly faster transfer between the 1st hard drives and the 2nd drive.
After you add the second drive as the computer starts go into the BIOS and make sure it sees the hard drive and its correct size. Note windows will see a slightly smaller size due to the difference in the definition of 1GB.
Under Windows XP in the Administrative Tools find Disk Management. There you can divide up the drive (partition it) the way you want and assign/change drives letters for each partition. You also need to format each partition.
