Re: UDMA & mode 4
From: Lil' Dave (spamyourself_at_virus.net)
Date: 08/21/04
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:37:11 -0400
Let's make this easy.
Use a 80 wire ide ribbon cable only. You won't have problems with
cross-talk, or random RF riding the cable.
On one end, colored blue, connects to the motherboard or pci interface ide
adapter board. The middle is gray, the slave is meant to go there. The end
is black, the master is meant to go there.
If you use cable select, both devices on the ide ribbon cable must use it.
Master will be on the end, slave in the middle.
If there's special settings, go to the hard drive maker's website armed with
the model number printed on top of the hard drive. One special setting
recently introduced a couple of years ago is the 32GB capacity jumper for
PCs that have trouble with hard drives bigger than that.
You may consider setting up primary master/slave as WD/DVD, and secondary
master/primary as Seagate/DVD.
"KUNAL K." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a7bb01c487b5$d1c9f340$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> 1.I've 2 HDDs in my system(one of recent WDC-40GB and the
> other of 3yrs back Seagate-20GB) ....Set as primary
> master/slave... Out of these 2 HDDs, the WDC one gets
> formatted quickly whenever i format it..But the seagate
> one takes a hell lot of time to get formatted (provided i
> format them with the same tool and using the same
> criteria)..Then why is this dissimilarity among these 2
> HDDs???
>
> 2.In an IDE interface cable,there are 3 connectors---one
> each at both ends and one near about at the middle..Which
> connector ideally is meant for the master mode & which one
> for the slave and which one should be connected on the
> motherboard's primary/secondary IDE channel??? If i
> connect the connectors to any arbitrary modes(say, the
> master connector in the slave drive & viceversa), will it
> affect the performance???
>
> 3.In HDD jumper setting (M=master; S=slave; C=cable
> select), what does the "cable select" jumper mean and what
> does it do???
> In some HDDs there are 5 jumper settings while in some
> there are 4 settings...Besides the general M; S; C
> settings, what are the rest settings meant for??? In some
> HDDs the jumper settings are not mentioned(like C; M; S),
> in such cases how to know which setting is meant for which
> mode??? any generalised rule for determining??
>
> 4.I've got 2 HDDs (primary master/slave) and 2 CD/DVD
> drives(secondary master/slave) in my system..My
> motherboard supports UDMA 66 & 33..Both my HDDs are workig
> in UDMA-66 mode.. The secondary master drive shows to be
> in UDMA-33 mode..But the secondary slave drive always
> shows to be in mode-4.. Even if i interchange the
> master/slave position of the secondary drives, the effect
> remains same (ie.. 2ndary slave in mode-4)..why it is so
> happening??? How to enable UDMA-33 to the 2ndary slave
> drive??? Please suggest.. Thanks in advance..
>
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