At 11:00 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>yeah.. i have two different hard drives, both E/IDE, and they are not on the
>same cable.. one is attached by cable to a Ultra IDE Controller thing, (the
>maxtor) the other attached by a cable to the motherboard.. what do you mean
>by the end connector?thank you sooo much for helping me! thank you thank you
>thank you!
>dominic
The 40-wire data cable for the hard drive should have 3 connectors on it.
One plugs into the socket on the mother board or the interface board and
the other two are for drives. The master drive should go on the end
connector and the slave drive should go on the middle one.
Every drive has a set of 3 pairs of pins which are used to configure the
drive. Many of these sets are along the back edge between the data and
power connectors; others are on the circuit board. The pins are jumpered to
designate the drive as Master, Slave or Cable select. The latter case is
usually not used, but *should* configure the drive based on its position on
the cable.
Check your two drives to ensure they are configured properly. You should
be able to put them on the same cable and system connector, but that's not
required.
As far as I know (AFAIK), there's E/IDE and UDMA. The IDE and EIDE drives
are functionally equivalent. The Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) take a
different connector, but are backward-compatible with the EIDE drives and
can live on the same cable/connector.
>ps what does HTH stand for? ;)
Hope This Helps.
Rich
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