
December 6th, 2003, 03:50 PM
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ide cables and master pin settings
I'm trying to get my new dvd burner to be the master drive. First: Can anybody tell me how to figure out which drive is master and which slave? In bios, it always jyst says a cd device boots up after c: . (I have cdrw and dvdrw). I can't tell if the 40pin ide cable's grey (middle) pin is the master or is the black (end) pin master? I thought it was the grey, so I set the dvrw jumper to master, plugged it into the grey pin (middle) of ide cable and started the computer. I think the cable is the 40(line/pin) type. I can't tell how to tell if it is regular or the 'y' shaped kind of cable.Either way I plug in, black or grey pins , the cdrw drive blinks first (by like a tenth of a second though), the cdrw jumper is on slave, the dvdrw on master. ((I also have an I think 80?pin? ide cable, it has a blue connector as well, I could try that one?)) But again which pin is which master/slave? And in computer properties it does'nt tell you which drive is the first boot?! Please help. URL
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