Thor
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Dear Friends!!
I have a intel 815e Mother board with Mercury Vista Tower cabinet.
Have 2 HDDS [Seagate 40 GB 5200rpm and Seagate 80 GB 7200rpm] , have 2 optical drives [Liteon 16X DVD ROM + Samsung 40x/12x/40x CD-ReWriter]. I tried connecting the 40 GB HDD as primary IDE master, DVD ROM as primary slave, 80 GB HDD as secondary IDE master and Samsung as secondary IDE Slave. The Damned BIOS doenot recognise Samsung as Secondary Slave@@. Only recognises 1st three.
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Then I tried exchanging the 80 GB HDD AND Samsung. This time the HDD is again recognised as Secondary MAster and Samsung doenot show up.
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When I connected the 2 HDDS as primary master and primary slave , the two opt. drives as secondary master and slave it showed up fine!!
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Each of both IDE Cables have 3 80-pin jacks on the cable. The blue one goes as Primary IDE CAble and the blue end connects to the Motherboard Right? And out of 2 more jacks [or socket] the one at the other end connects as Master and the jack at the middle connects as slave.RIght?
The 2nd IDE Cable with all black jacks is the 2ndary IDE.
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Let me know if I was Right with the above data. I'm in serious confusion right now.
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Thx in advance.
I have a intel 815e Mother board with Mercury Vista Tower cabinet.
Have 2 HDDS [Seagate 40 GB 5200rpm and Seagate 80 GB 7200rpm] , have 2 optical drives [Liteon 16X DVD ROM + Samsung 40x/12x/40x CD-ReWriter]. I tried connecting the 40 GB HDD as primary IDE master, DVD ROM as primary slave, 80 GB HDD as secondary IDE master and Samsung as secondary IDE Slave. The Damned BIOS doenot recognise Samsung as Secondary Slave@@. Only recognises 1st three.
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Then I tried exchanging the 80 GB HDD AND Samsung. This time the HDD is again recognised as Secondary MAster and Samsung doenot show up.
---------------------
When I connected the 2 HDDS as primary master and primary slave , the two opt. drives as secondary master and slave it showed up fine!!
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Each of both IDE Cables have 3 80-pin jacks on the cable. The blue one goes as Primary IDE CAble and the blue end connects to the Motherboard Right? And out of 2 more jacks [or socket] the one at the other end connects as Master and the jack at the middle connects as slave.RIght?
The 2nd IDE Cable with all black jacks is the 2ndary IDE.
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Let me know if I was Right with the above data. I'm in serious confusion right now.
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Thx in advance.