Puttin in three hard drives

[rickytim]

hey guys

I am haveing problems instanling 3 hard drive in my pc. I can only get the mater one to work. I am wondering if i had set the pins right to do this. My mother boad is a gigabyte 7vaxp. The master is a wd 80 gig and the slave is a wd 20 gig and the other hd i dont know the make. any help would be great.

thanks
Ricky

[Droppyale]

what if you set the jumpers to "Cable Select" wouldn't the system recognize all of them?

well you should have:

Primary IDE
1). Master HD
2) Slave HD

then on the second IDE you would put (assuming you have a cd-rom. the cd-rom should be already master so you shouldnt have to mess with it) the hard drive as the slave and the cd-rom as a master

Depending on the drive the pin layout is different. who makes the hard drives?

[DoctorReno]

Most drives have a diagram on them somewhere that shows you how to jumper the drive for master/slave. You also need to make sure that the drive is detected and configured correctly in the BIOS.
Which OS are you using?

[rickytim]

the os i am useing is windows xp pro

[DoctorReno]

Droppyale, for Cable Select to work you must have a Cable Select IDE cable. Since CS did not catch on and in not widely used most IDE cables you buy are not CS compliant. If memory seves me correct in a CS IDE cable the #11 wire was the one that ws used to set the drives to master/slave.

[Droppyale]

Originally posted by DoctorReno
Droppyale, for Cable Select to work you must have a Cable Select IDE cable. Since CS did not catch on and in not widely used most IDE cables you buy are not CS compliant. If memory seves me correct in a CS IDE cable the #11 wire was the one that ws used to set the drives to master/slave.

Thanks that's good to know.

the drives i've bought come with their own IDE cable, and they are CS ready.

I didn't know some cables a aren't CS compliant.

[DoctorReno]

With XP you may also have to go into the Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and enable the secondary channels there.

[sabwafare2001]

First try the drives both on cable select. If it still doesn't work, try the jumpers completely off both of them. If you do this make sure the master drive is plugged into the cable the end opposite of the motherboard. The slave should be in the middle. I had the same problem with a maxtor 80gb 8mb cache & a WD800JB and the things mentioned above is what I did.

[sm8000]

Newer IBM and Western Digital hard drives should have no jumper on if they are alone on the cable. To find out what that third drive is, get Belarc Advisor or Aida32.