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Correct way to fit IDE cable?
I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected
better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. |
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"Peter McVries" wrote in message ... I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. yes you are right - technically - but as you see it does work, just not so well when on wrong - so yes you should have blue-mobo, black to master, grey to slave |
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Your drive must be set as master rather than cable select and that's why
it's working. Don't think it will make any difference in performance where you put it or how you strap it. "Peter McVries" wrote in message ... I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. |
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Peter McVries wrote:
I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. As long as you're not using cable select, it makes no difference which connector you use. There is a possibility that having an unused "stub" between the middle (grey) and the end (black) connector could pick up electromatic interfereence. Thus the recomendation that a single drive be put on the end connector. If you set the drive(s) to cable select, a conductor in the cable to pin #28 (CSEL) determines which drive will be master. This requires the master to be on the end (black) connector. Virg Wall -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:02:11 +0100, In this world we created Peter
McVries wrote : I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. See other posts but have you bench marked the drive/s? -- Free Windows/PC help, It's a G not a J in jmx to reply http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html Free songs download, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/17/sheppard.html |
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Shep© wrote:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:02:11 +0100, In this world we created Peter McVries wrote : I've recently bought a new machine and is working ok although I expected better performance from an Asus A7N8X-X and Athlon 3000xp. Having looked inside the case it appears that the Maxtor hard drive has the grey connector plugged in to it, the blue connector is to the MOBO and the black connector is free. I thought that the black connector should be plugged in to the Hard disk as that is the master connector and the grey should be used for any slave devices. Is this correct? Should I put the black IDE connector to the HDD? TIA. See other posts but have you bench marked the drive/s? No. How would I go about that? |
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