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Basically to start off, after I/O errors from my DVDR Drive (and other bugs), I did a format on my HDD and reinstalled my OS. I believe my problems were due to my IDE configuration. Firstly, I noticed in IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers in Device Manager list:.PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL.PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL.SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL.SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL.STANDARD DUAL CHANNEL PCI IDE CONTROLLER.VIA BUS MASTER IDE CONTROLLER Why do I have 2 of primary and secondary IDE channels?
Should I disable 1 of each? I have a: Acer Aspire T135 AMD Sampron 3300+ 2.0 Ghz 2 GB RAM Windows XP Home Gigabyte K8VM800MAE Motherboard I have 2 HDDs. The 160 GB HD is my system HD and the other is a 40 GB.
I have one Ativa DVDR Drive also. So the best config is: IDE O: Primary: 160 GB HD (Master) Secondary: 40 GB HD (Slave) IDE 1: Primary: DVDR Drive (jumper to Master or Cable Select?) Secondary: Empty 40 pin cable or 80 pin? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I just want my DVDR Drive to work reliably!
You use of the terms 'primary' and 'secondly' are confusing. Is that the exact wording in the BIOS? The setup you have appears to be alright. The 80 wire cable is preferred, and is required for cable select. The 40 sire IDE must have the individual drives set to 'Master' or 'Slave'. In some cases drives from different manufactures have confusing jumper options. You almost have to stand on your head to read them.
Here is a very good guide here on this forum. Please read it over and if there is something not clear, please come back here. Thanx for the help! I opened it up and made the changes. Here is where I am at. The 160 GB System HD is on Sata 0 with the jumper on Master.
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Sata 1 is empty. The 40 GB HD is on IDE 1 with the jumper on Slave. Used an 80 pin cable with it connected to the end and not middle.
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I used an 80 pin since the base on the motherboard for IDE 1 was blue and IDE 2 was black. The 80 pin cable had a blue connector. The DVDR Drive is on IDE 2 with the jumper on Master. Used a 40 pin cable with it connected to the end and not middle. Is there any settings I need to change in Windows, etc?
From what I understand of the semantics the 40GB is on one IDE channel/Cable at the end connector and set to slave, and the Optical drive is on a 40-wire cable anbd set to master. Now, the problem is that the ATA-5. Whichever one introduced ATA-133) is rather clear on a limitation that a cable should not have a Slave drive with no master; results can be unpredictable. Therefore my suggestion is to simply set the 40GB to master, and keep it connected to the end connector of the cable. Regarding the original issue that absolutely nobody has addressed at all. Just take out what BC a programmer said about IDE cables. You can find answers to the question by doing a Google search on 80 pin IDE cable.
FOR BC = 1 to 5 The 80 pin cable is both preferred and required. NEXT BC As to the Hardware manager, don't worry about how it identifies the interface. Unless there really is a duplication of drivers, which would result in a yellow triangle. The two colors of the connectors on the motherboard are to help you find which connector is IDE 0 and IDE 1 on the motherboard. Not all motherboards are so nice.
Yeha, OK, just a second, let me go yell at my 386 for working properly with Cable Select for 3+ years. A 80-conductor cable is preferred simply because it allows for IDE drives to operate at full speed.but it has the exact same number of active pinouts as the 80 conductor cable. Cable Select is implemented Purely between the drives and the IDE controller, and uses the same pins that are present on both an 80-conductor and a 40-conductor cable. So, a 'google search' will say that I need a 80 conductor cable for cable select.
Does it explain why cable select existed and worked fine for before the 80-conductor cable and ATA-133 was introduced? Will it explain why my IDE drive from 1984 sports a Master, Slave, and Cable Select setting? Were the creators of said drives merely psychic and able to predict that magical day when their function would become a reality with a cable that somehow sends extra data to and from the drives and yet uses the exact same number of active signal wires? I thought that you weren't supposed to have two HD's set to 'Master' regardless whether both are IDE or one was SATA (like me).
Or is that only when it is with the System HD? I just left it as 'Slave' to be safe.
I also thought if you have only one thing on an IDE cable, to put it at the end regardless of Master/Slave setting. Anyways it doesn't seem to effect the HD, so I am leaving it on 'Slave'.
BTW.I burned a DVDR. No I/O error and it wrote at full speed, where before it would burn 8.0x max.
Thanx for the help!