CD/CDRW/Hard Drive hook up order

[Tom T.]

I have built a computer just for recording music. I am using a Delta 1010 sound card. Asus mother board p4b533, Question
what is the best jumper setting (slave-master) for
1.CD Rom
2.CD/RW
3.Hard drive
which two on the same ribbon cable and plugged into which ide
input on motherboard.
What I am starting with is;
IDE input 1 from motherboard to harddrive(set as master)
IDE input 2 from motherboard to CD Rom (set as master)
CD/RW (set as slave)
which goes on the end connector and which on the middle one
on the ribbon cable.


also what is the 80 pin cable used for that came with the mother
board, I do use only the 40 pin cables to connect the above dont I. Please help I want to start this computer up but I also want to be sure everything is connected properly. thanks Tom T.

 

[dachay2tnr]

If you have just one hard drive, you want to make that the Master on IDE1. Make the CD-RW the Master on IDE-2. Slave the CD-ROM to either one.

If you have two hard drives, then set your OS drive as the Master on IDE1 with the CD-RW as the slave. Set your audio drive as the Master on IDE2 with the CD-ROM as slave.

80-Pin cables are for the newer ATA100 hard drives. If your hard drive is ATA100 or higher, you need to use the 80-wire cable. Older hard drives and CD's should be OK with the 40-wire cables.

 

[Tom T.]

The hard drive in question is a new western digital 80 gig with the new 8 meg buffer, does this get the 40 pin or the 80 pin. I ordered it as oem and it came with nothing.

 

[James Argo]

Dachay Brutha said it...
in addition to your current drives, here's my suggestion.

IDE1 --> HD (Master) --> CDROM (Slave)
IDE2 --> CD-RW (Master)

...don't line two CD drives at a same cables. You'll have a hard times on copying CD to CD. Neither HD with CD-RW. It'll give you such a bad time if you wanna burn data HD to CD-RW, the cable will have to do both "read" and "write" at the same time...


Jaymz

 

[RWhite]

If you have only one hard drive, Mr. Argo has the best setup.

If you - and I strongly suggest you do this - decide to add a second hard drive for storing data, then the following setup is best -

IDE1 Master - System hard drive
IDE1 Slave - CDRW drive
IDE2 Master - Big fast data hard drive
IDE2 Slave - DVD or CD-ROM drive

If you want to know my reasoning, do a search - I've posted it in detail many, many times.

 

[Tom T.]

After reading the posts I decided to connect the hd(master) and the cd rom(slave) to IDE 1 on the mother board now my problem is should I use the 80 pin connector for the hard drive, will the cd rom connect to the same 80 pin connector, or do I have to go back and use the 40 pin ribbon to connect both on the same one.
please bare with me I'll get it right sooner or later.
"mixed up in Ky." thanks Tom T.