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hvrio · 05-05-2008, 09:55 AM

It's funny that I've been assembling and repairing PCs for 2 years now and never bothered to check the jumper settings of the drives.

I set all the drive jumper settings (including CDRom) to cable select and it works like a charm (apparently, all the HDs were set to master except the CDRom). Thanks to you guys.

Question though. Will setting everything to cable select affect anything? Performance? Reliability? If not, then why have those options in the first place?

Thank you.

05-05-2008, 09:55 AM	#5 (permalink)
hvrio Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP (SP2), Ubuntu (8.04)	Re: Mobo Won't Detect HD on IDE Slave With Another HD It's funny that I've been assembling and repairing PCs for 2 years now and never bothered to check the jumper settings of the drives. I set all the drive jumper settings (including CDRom) to cable select and it works like a charm (apparently, all the HDs were set to master except the CDRom). Thanks to you guys. Question though. Will setting everything to cable select affect anything? Performance? Reliability? If not, then why have those options in the first place? Thank you. __________________ HTWong Last edited by hvrio : 05-05-2008 at 09:58 AM.