So yes, there was a lot of confusion and a lot of people didn't want to screw with jumpers so things were difficult - the only real way was to jumper appropriately and skip cable select all together.
So as a result you get people that post what worked for them, but the problem with that is while it probably did work for them, they often didn't give any details on what the exact hardware/chipsets were that they were running. There seemed to be various ways boards dealt with Cable Select (CS) and incorrectly jumpered drives. Really the ONLY sure fire way to make IDE work even on IDE only boards (pre SATA) was to force Master and Slave jumpers correctly.
But there reason there is so much "gobbley-gook" is because IDE stuff is confusing to people that didn't "grow up" with it. Joe Lunchpail - I don't know your background or age and it is dangerous to make assumptions, so my apologies if I'm totally wrong here. It's arithmetic!Ĭlick to expand.Apologies for bumping this again after a month and a half, but hey its not as bad as bumping it after 5.5 years. Too many people just have to complicate things. It took me all of 10 minutes after laughing my head off for 2 hours reading all the gobbley-gook all over the Internet. Here's what I did & it's easy-peasy!Ģ: take jumper off of the IDE HD and put it somewhere that you're sure to forget aboutģ: Plug the IDE HD into the connection in middle of ribbon cable (don't forget the power!)Ĥ: Boot computer & go into BIOS>BOOT Make sure the SATA is the 1st to boot with the HDs (My sequence is: DVD, USB, SATA, IDEĦ: Enjoy (after Windows installs the new driver for the IDE HD & asks you to reboot)ħ: I repeat. That's it! SATA is my boot drive (C & my DVD is Master on the IDE(0)-End plug. I already had a pretty good idea about how to do it but I like checking. I checked all over the 'Net and all I found was a bunch of people who need a life & who tried to dazzle me with BS or baffle me with their brilliance. Hey there: I too wanted to simply add an old IDE HDD I had laying around just for storage.
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