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hard drive and cd rom on same data cable
Name: andy Date: November 12, 2001 at 12:59:24 Pacific
Comment:
can i have a hard drive and cd rom on the same data cable? the hard drive does not have a plastic jumper thing on it, so i figgured it was on master. i put the cd rom on slave, but it wont boot...
Name: 666 Date: November 12, 2001 at 13:11:50 Pacific
Reply:
try to put the cdrom as mnaster on the secondary channel
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Response Number 2
Name: andy Date: November 12, 2001 at 13:12:51 Pacific
Reply:
how do i change the channel?
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Response Number 3
Name: 666 Date: November 12, 2001 at 13:15:52 Pacific
Reply:
on all motherboards made since 1995 have 2 ide channels on them. Primary and Secondary. Your harddrive must be Primary Master. You should put your cdrom as Master on the Secondary IDE channel. Both your cdrom and harddrive would be on thier own cable
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Response Number 4
Name: PaCmAnFaN Date: November 12, 2001 at 13:21:41 Pacific
Reply:
ok.... will try it after i can hunt up another data cable
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