Summary: yea, it is basic healthy C and yes ide was disconnected. connecting the IDE will cause the IDE to boot first and thus come up with an error because N...
Summary: you can add an ide hd as a slave, no problem.... primary master or slave to an optical drive or put it on the secondary master and have an optical d...
Summary: When I set the cd-rom to slave and the hd to master (with ata slave) nothing shows up in the bios, just get not installed. since my drive was returnin...
Summary: http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/serial-ata-ide-converter.htm Check ou the link above that might give you the answer you are looking for. All you will n...
Summary: Hi all Just a quick question. Due to a crappy case and limited space, I'm forced to place 2 ATA harddisks on one ribbon and a Zip drive and dvd-rom on...
Summary: can any one explain how to work the master / slave setting with an SATA HD ? cause im not clear on how it works, and i want to ad my OS to one of my S...
Summary: Looks like your right. On the cable one side said master the other said slave. Their in the right possitions now. Thx! How would i be able to see the ...
Summary: Sabertooth, Is this problem apparent in Western Digital SATA HDs in particular, SATA HDs in particular or HDs on WinXP in general? Also regarding the ...
Summary: Thanks for the reply. I did use Google and go to this site, but it does not tell me if my MB is compatible with this HD, or doesn’t it matter? Also,...
Summary: I just bought a new HD, replaced with the old one and booted, it worked great! I came back a few hours after and now the light of the HD and the CD st...
Summary: I have been running with one master HD and one slave HD for a while now. The master is connected via Serial ATA and the slave is connected via IDE cab...
Summary: Hi there, I am currently running W2K with SP4.Ever since installing SP4 I can no longer play a certain game.I cannot uninstall SP4 since I did not bac...
Summary: This problem is hard to describe, so please bear with me. I purchased a new system in January of this year and I've been having this problem--on and ...
Summary: Just the mainboard and the hard drive. Also you might want to get a power supply that has built in SATA power connectors, these are required if you wi...
Summary: Thank you for the replies -- my confusion has arisen in part because the drive actually came in as "H" after all the other drives. The Vaio comes wit...
Summary: "I have moved the SATA HD around and it is currently in the Red slot #4. There is no jumper on it. " Looking at the manual, page 27 of the pdf, you ca...
Summary: I am preparing to build a new system for Vista and this time I want to install the system on a separate drive, not partitioned. My question is this, I...
Summary: I did a couple of different searches here but didn't come up with anything that helped. I've connected a 10G HD as a Slave on the Primary IDE which ha...
Summary: thank you for your reply. the thing is that ive got a cd writer as master o the second channel. now ive managed, switching jumpers to, have my cdrom a...
Summary: I have PII-350MHz with 256MB RAM, QDI Brilliant P6I440BX motherboard, Matsus---a UJDD410 CD/RW and Quantum Fireball EX-6.4GB HD. I am running Win98. T...
Summary: I installed a second HD as a slave and then cloned the master. I then switched the slave with the master and changed the jumper. My new HD is shown ...
Summary: Hi Smee, OtheHill is right, the HD is very unlikely to be the problem. As the graphic card also works it can be the mainboard, cpu, ram or power suppl...
Summary: i like real silent HD's, if the maxtor's FDB's quiet and has no problem i'll go with maxtor. though, i really need speed, that's another big issue. I ...
Summary: i have the jumper set on the pins in the middle(3rd from both ways)this is master. i try it hooked up to the primary and slave side of the IDE cable. ...
Summary: Thanks for the responses...now, this jumper setting has me edgy. The old HD has no diagram for the slave/master settings. Can I just try plugging th...
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