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How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select. If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the primary (master and the middle on the ribbon cable the slave. Western Digital talks about cable select hook up as a cable with a black master at the end of the cable plug and a mid way plug as being gray. Is that an absolute specification followed by all cable makers. As far as I know my computer has never had it's cable changed but both my IDE connectors are black. And the cable at the end is marked drive 0 and the middle one drive 1. The cable does have the red strip on the farthest out wire out for determining the pin it should be connected to so right to left is not reversed and pins are damaged due to the missing middle pin? WD also talks about either using the master and slave jumper or the cable select jumpers on both drives but not both. Ifs that true for all made drives? Does it matter that much if both configurations where used at the same time? Or if either is used not much difference if any in operation? Also could a hard drive as in a number three be connected to the cable middle or end that a CD-ROM is connected? Are second middle cabled installed CD-ROM drives call master primary and slaves too? |
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How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
The colour coding of the connectors is a guide, but not a guarantee. Same
for the labels 0 and 1. I would guess that the cable is a CS cable. You could find out by examining how the current drive is configured, but the instruction in the manual is actually telling you that the system is configured as CS. You cannot select both CS and M/S for any one drive. If such a combination worked at all, I suspect that CS would override M/S. If there are two drives they must be configured as both CS, or one as master and one as slave. No other combination is correct. The process is the same for all IDE devices, although the detail of the jumpering will be different. This includes hard disk drives, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM , and CD or DVD recordable/rewriteable. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS-c.html -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "DJW" wrote in message oups.com... How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable? I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select. If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the primary (master and the middle on the ribbon cable the slave. Western Digital talks about cable select hook up as a cable with a black master at the end of the cable plug and a mid way plug as being gray. Is that an absolute specification followed by all cable makers. As far as I know my computer has never had it's cable changed but both my IDE connectors are black. And the cable at the end is marked drive 0 and the middle one drive 1. The cable does have the red strip on the farthest out wire out for determining the pin it should be connected to so right to left is not reversed and pins are damaged due to the missing middle pin? WD also talks about either using the master and slave jumper or the cable select jumpers on both drives but not both. Ifs that true for all made drives? Does it matter that much if both configurations where used at the same time? Or if either is used not much difference if any in operation? Also could a hard drive as in a number three be connected to the cable middle or end that a CD-ROM is connected? Are second middle cabled installed CD-ROM drives call master primary and slaves too? |
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How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
Forget Cable Select. Forget it ever existed. Use Master or Slave settings
for your drives. All of them. Much easier all the way around. Then it doesn't matter which connector you use (though it's still probably best to put Master on end and Slave in the middle.) I could try and explain the ins and outs of Cable Select, but I don't think you have the knowledge to use the explanation. Involves figuring out how many conductors the cable has and whether the motherboard supports CS. Better to forget it and use Master/Slave. If you want to learn more, go to www.pcguide.com. You have two connectors on the motherboard that are called Primary and Secondary. Thus you have four possible drives -- Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave. It would be good for you to practice using those exact terminologies. Always try to put bootable partitions (where operating systems reside) on the Primary Master drive. Try not to put a hard drive (HDD) as a Slave where the Master is a CD drive. On the other hand, you usually want a CDRW (writable CD drive) as Secondary Master. They often don't work as well when they are a Slave, though if you put one in as Slave, it should only be with a hard drive as the Master. If you have three HDDs and one CDRW, try the CDRW as the Secondary Master and a data-only HDD as the Slave. Run Scandisk on the slave drive's partition(s) and see if it reports any errors. DO NOT repair any errors it finds. Make sure it's not set to automatically repair errors. Write down the results, then switch the drive to being Master and do it again. If the same errors show up, then it's probably the drive, not its position. If there are no errors in the drive when it's set to Master but there are errors when it's set to Slave, then you can't use it as a slave. (When you test the drive as a slave, make sure you have the CDRW connected as Master and that it's operational.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "DJW" wrote in message oups.com... How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable? I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select. If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the primary (master and the middle on the ribbon cable the slave. Western Digital talks about cable select hook up as a cable with a black master at the end of the cable plug and a mid way plug as being gray. Is that an absolute specification followed by all cable makers. As far as I know my computer has never had it's cable changed but both my IDE connectors are black. And the cable at the end is marked drive 0 and the middle one drive 1. The cable does have the red strip on the farthest out wire out for determining the pin it should be connected to so right to left is not reversed and pins are damaged due to the missing middle pin? WD also talks about either using the master and slave jumper or the cable select jumpers on both drives but not both. Ifs that true for all made drives? Does it matter that much if both configurations where used at the same time? Or if either is used not much difference if any in operation? Also could a hard drive as in a number three be connected to the cable middle or end that a CD-ROM is connected? Are second middle cabled installed CD-ROM drives call master primary and slaves too? |
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