Can CD-ROM be the master and HD be the Slave on Primary IDE?

[liu]

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My CD-ROM drive bay is on top of the HD one. I thought the connection
at the end has to be the master and other one in the middle being the
slave. So I set it up as CD being the master, and HD as the slave. My
PC does not recognize any dirve???

Any suggestions,

cpliu

 

[liu]

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I was wrong. It seems OK to have the one at the end as slave and the
one in the middle as the master. It works fine now.

cpliu

 

[Guest]

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liu <spamfreeliu@yahoo.com> wrote

> My CD-ROM drive bay is on top of the HD one. I thought the connection
> at the end has to be the master and other one in the middle being the slave.

Only if you use cable select.

> So I set it up as CD being the master, and HD as the slave.

You could have done it the other way.

> My PC does not recognize any dirve???

It should have.

> Any suggestions,

Try it the other way around.

Looks like you did and it works.