How to hook Hard Drive up to Cables

[Hayes17]

ok here is my problem. My hard drive will work with bios saying it is set up as the thing below the master on the bios. But i have 2 cd drives and when i hook up my cd burner it doesn't say the hard drive is there. I need to no how to hook all the cables up in the computer. If anyone knows where i can find pictures and diagrams that would be great. The hard drive has to be set under master (i think) so the burner will work.

Thanks Alot

 

[Trifid]

You want to the hard drive with the OS on as master, only the first IDE cable for it to work properly.

The cd drives doesn't need to be set in any order.


I would put the Harddrive on the first IDE cable, with it on master, with nothing else on it. The 2 cd burners on the other cable.

 

[Hayes17]

is the first ide cable the one closest to the side of the mother board? The hard drive uses the bigger plugs also. Thanks

 

[Hayes17]

ok that worked but its just that it won't read that i have a blank disc in my burner. Its a Artec 48x 12x 48 i can't find any drivers on it so idn.

 

[ImUseless]

You should have a "Primary" IDE connector and a "Secondary"
IDE connector on your motherboard.

Remember to adjust your jumpers on your devices so they represent
there placement in your system ie: your hard drive jumper is set
as the "Master" device on the "Primary" IDE connector-then........

I would put your cd burner as the "Master" device on the "Secondary"
IDE connector on your motherboard.

Your other cd device can be placed as the "Slave" device on your
"Secondary" IDE connector.

This is designed for speed and reliability between the cd roms and
hard drive. Most people believe it is better to extract the source
from the cd rom and copy to hard drive. Then, copy from hard
drive to destination ie: cd burner. So, this configuration works
best.