Summary: On my PC, the Primary IDE channel is set for "DMA mode if available. The secondary IDE channel controller said PIO mode on both devices, one is a CDRO...
Summary: both ide are set to enable!! everything workded fine prior to inserting new battery. all jumpers were set accordingly for master/slave with the cd-rom...
Summary: Found this forum today and decided to see if anyone can shed some light on this problem: Only used one ide channel at first because had SCSI cd. Got C...
Summary: "Hooking an DVD or CD with HD would slow the the HD to the speed of CD,DVD" Not true. A cd/dvd drive that operates at 52X max will not slow down a HDD...
Summary: I am trying to install my old ATAPI ZIP drive into my new computer, which has two CD drives (DVD and CDRW), both on the secondary IDE channel. I'd lik...
Summary: Im trying to put a third hard drive into my dell. But it wont detect anything on the second channel. With my current setup I have 2 hard drives in t...
Summary: Most modern hard drives are either ATA66/ATA100/ATA133. Most modern CD/DVD/CDRW's are either ATA33 or slower. Two drives on the same IDE channel work...
Summary: With two CD drives on same IDE channel, you will probably have to put the reorded data on the HDD and then transfer to the CD-R media. Even with maste...
Summary: Hi everyone, I've just updated my CPU, and I'm very happy with it, but I've found out that my hard drives are really slow on this computer, to the poi...
Summary: Hi, New IDE cables would be top of my list Use 80 wire cables if your drives require it. I keep an 80 wire cable spare as I have twice ahd cables fail...
Summary: Hi! What would be the best approach to set up 2 HDs, CDROM and CDRW on 2 IDE channels? I think of to set both HDs as Masters? Or to set CDRW as a Mast...
Summary: I'm having a weird problem. I've had my motherboard for a couple years now and its worked no problem. Then i was having problems with the computer not...
Summary: Thanks, compaq (sucks!) and made it to where you can't slave it, tried then called and they confirmed that. How would I put it as master on 2nd IDE ch...
Summary: DVD-ROM & DVD burner should not be on the same channel...open your case & change the configuration, or take it back & tell them to change it for you. ...
Summary: When you did the repair you may have lost all the updates, including SP2. I don't know anything about IDE to SATA adapters but doing a Windows repair...
Summary: It is better to have the harddrives separated. I would suggest the Boot/OS HD on IDE 0 as the Master only and the other two drives on the secondary I...
Summary: I just got a used computer, that used to be a network server. I had Windows 2000 Pro just installed 2 days ago on a brand new hard drive. I tried to h...
Summary: This is a new computer being built. The specs are: MB: ECS k7vta3 CPU: AMD Duron 1.6 HD: WD 80GB CDRW: Lite-On 52x32x52x RAM: Crucial 256mb DDR 2700...
Summary: Hi everyone I have to state beforehand that I'm quite a novice in informatics field... Problem: Philips Internal CD-Rewritable (16x10x40, drive interf...
Summary: i just added a 2nd hdd, but then my dvd drive started acting like what your hdd is doing (they're on different ide channels). Windows had put my zip ...
Summary: Ok i have 2 IDE sockets on my mother board 1 has my current hard drive connected which is slave(which is mounted at the front of my case)The ribbon ca...
Summary: Umm... here are some answers. You can take your primary HDD, snap on a PATA to SATA adapter, and connect it to your SATA controller. Make sure the SA...
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