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>"rp" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>news:201401c49d9e$91eae320$a301280a@phx.gbl...
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>>hello, and thanks. I've had a look and the "jumpers"
>> only have one slot on each of the drives where they can
>> go. can you please explain to me how i set my drives to
>> master and slave? thanks for your help, much
appreciated.
>
>This site should answer your questions, it shows hard
drives but the
>procedure is the same for CD/DVD
>http://freepctech.com/pc/001/installing_ide_devices.shtml
>
>Basically though
>
>On the back of the drive next to where the ribbon cable
attaches will
>be a set of copper pins (usually 8) two of these will
have a small
>plastic covered jumper across them (usually black or
green plastic)
>there are three setting for the drive, master, slave and
cable select
>and this is set by putting this jumper across two of the
8 pins.
>
>There may be, either stamped into the metal of the drive
or on a
>sticker, the words master, slave and cable select or
simply the
>letters M, S and CS which line up with pins to show you
which 2 to put
>the jumper across or there may be a diagram sticker on
the drive
>showing which 2 to put the jumper across.
>
>Assuming both drives are connected with one ribbon cable
(i.e both on
>the same IDE channel) you need to set 1 to master (I
suggest this is
>the DVD-RW) and the other one to slave.
>
>
>.
>hey, thanks for all your friendly advice. I shall look
into all of what you said tomorrow as I've been on my pc
for seven hours trying to sort this out and I've got a
massive headache. I'll post a reply tomorrow with how I
got on. thanks again.
RP.