setting up drives

[zeldazme]

undefinedI have four drives to set up. Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, Secondary Slave and I know that hard drive is primary master but need to know where to put my 1)DVD Rom, 2)CD-RW, and 3)Iomega Zip Drive respectively. Thank you. :confused:

[Alaron]

Use the hard drive as your primary master drive. On the second IDE cable, hook up the DVDROM and CDRW. It doesn't matter which one is master, I personally have my DVDROM as master and my CDRW as slave.


:)

[Cricket]

I think the internal Zip Drive is a IDE/ATAPI device.

You can install the Zip Drive as slave to the hard drive but data transfer from hard drive to Zip or visa versa is gonna be painfully slow. But as long as you don't access both drives at once, the hard drive should perform normally.

:) Cricket

[mc2phat]

IDE channels allow two devices per, that's it. If you only have two IDE channels on your board you're limited to four devices. You'll need to do this:
1) Master/Slave or Cable Select two harddrives on your Primary IDE chanel
2) Master/Slave two of the three optical drives/Zip drives on your Secondary IDE channel
3) pick up a Promise ATA controller card and hook everything else to it
OR hook your drives to the ATA card, run the Zip on Secondary on motherboard, run CD drives Master/Slave on Primary IDE channel
If you don't want to buy a controller card, you'll have to choose four of the seven devices to run.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-002&depa=0

EDIT: Here's the datasheet on that card to which I linked:
http://www.promise.com/marketing/datasheet/file/1_U100TX2_en.pdf

Internal zip drives are either IDE or SCSI. The data cable will not plug into the floppy port, which is 34 pins. Look at the back of the Zip drive where the data cable plugs in, if there's 40 pins there it's IDE.

[glc]

Use whichever combination works well. Don't be afraid to experiment. The only thing that's cast in stone is the hard drive should be primary master.