primary or secondary IDE controller

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What is the guideline to use to determine which of the two IDE controllers
on a MB is the primary and which is the secondary?

 

[Philo]

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"Stephen Larivee" <NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
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> What is the guideline to use to determine which of the two IDE controllers
> on a MB is the primary and which is the secondary?
>
>
if you look carefully at the motherboard (you may need a good light and some
reading glasses)
the channels should be labeled...

if not...just put a drive on one channel
then watch the bios messages
and you will see which channel the device is detected on

 

[BigJim]

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usually the board is marked IDE1 and IDE2
"Stephen Larivee" <NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
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> What is the guideline to use to determine which of the two IDE controllers
> on a MB is the primary and which is the secondary?
>

 

[Guest]

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"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Stephen Larivee" <NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
> news:Q-SdnS51OY-2uPzfRVn-og@comcast.com...

>> What is the guideline to use to determine which of the two IDE
>> controllers
>> on a MB is the primary and which is the secondary?
>>
> if you look carefully at the motherboard (you may need a good light and
> some
> reading glasses) the channels should be labeled...
>
> if not...just put a drive on one channel then watch the bios messages
> and you will see which channel the device is detected on

Thank you both for your help.

 

[Guest]

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Uhhh, let me think. I believe on the motherboard itself it will specify ide1
and ide2. From that we can infer through consultation with a magic 8 ball
that the primary would be ide1. No ide2. No wait... Yep ide1. And by the
process of elimination that leaves us with ide2 being the, you guessed it,
secondary.

"Stephen Larivee" <NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
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> What is the guideline to use to determine which of the two IDE controllers
> on a MB is the primary and which is the secondary?
>
>