Samsung won't play nice with my WD

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ruth
  • Start date Start date
R

Ruth

I have WD 8Gig drive purch in 1999.
Recently added Samsung 40 G drive. When the Samsung is online the WD
disappears and only the Samsung is detected. Any way to make these kids
behave. Dont have CS capable MB so cant use CS for master slave stuff.

thanks
 
Ruth said:
I have WD 8Gig drive purch in 1999.
Recently added Samsung 40 G drive. When the Samsung is online the WD
disappears and only the Samsung is detected. Any way to make these kids
behave.
Click to expand...
Dont have CS capable MB
Click to expand...

No? How come? How do you know?
so cant use CS for master slave stuff.
Click to expand...

Wanna bet?
 
I have WD 8Gig drive purch in 1999.
Recently added Samsung 40 G drive. When the Samsung is online the WD
disappears and only the Samsung is detected. Any way to make these kids
behave. Dont have CS capable MB so cant use CS for master slave stuff.
Click to expand...

Make sure the jumper is set to Master for one and Slave for other.
Also make sure the cable isn't for CS (has a small missing section of
wire near the MB connector)

AFAIK MB doesn't handle CS, it's the drive itself that sets itself to
be slave/master so you should be able to use CS if both hard drive
supported CS.
 
Impmon said:
Make sure the jumper is set to Master for one and Slave for other.
Click to expand...
Also make sure the cable isn't for CS (has a small missing section of
wire near the MB connector)
Click to expand...

Clueless. Not all 80-wire cables have the missing section (which btw
is for seperating CBLID and PDIAG, not Master and Slave) plus an
80-wire cable is absolutely fine for M/S application.
Hell, how else would you attach an over Ultra-33 HD.
AFAIK MB doesn't handle CS,
Click to expand...

Right.
The only requirement is that the CS pin on the MoBo IDE connector is grounded.
 
Back
Top