Re: [OT?] CD-ROM and Hard Drive on Same Cable

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It will work (assuming the jumpers are correct) but the controller can only access one device (on a given channel) at a time so putting the cd-rom on the same channel as a fixed disk is probably going to slow access to your disk.

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"W. Watson" wrote:
I can't find a suitable PC hardware NG that looks current, so I'll post here until someone directs me to a better NG.

It's been awhile since I played hook up with drives. Here's my problem. I have a CD-ROM drive at the end of a cable. It works fine. I thought I'd stick a HD in as a slave. It doesn't get detected. I made it a slave. However, I have no idea what the CD-ROM thinks it is--Ah, master according to BIOS. It looks like it has two jumpers. (What are the jumper possibilities for it?) It's a 56x Disc shown in BIOS as G6D M1.30. I'm pretty sure the cables are 48-pin. The HD is a boot disk from an older system, and is in a removable drive (handle on front). It seems seated and I'm pretty confident it's powered up, although the removable container has no LED. (I switched power with the CD-ROM to test it.) Is it not possible to put a HD on the same cable with a CD-ROM?

The CD-ROM is on the end of it's cable. The connector at the end of the cable has one (center) pin missing, so I can't put the HD in it.

I could put the HD on the same cable with my W2K boot-up HD, but the cable positioning is a little weird. I'd need to re-arrange the position of the removable drive a bit.
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