On my secondary IDE channel I have two hard drives, say E and F. On the IDE cable E is on one end, F in the middle. F has the jumper to be a master. E has no jumper which means slave. When the computer boots it can't detect the Secondary Slave. When I get into windows both drives are accessible, but E is stuck in PIO mode, even though Transfer Mode is DMA if available. How to fix this?
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afedaken2007-04-03 12:48 ID:m5wd+Jzh
I've had this happen to CD-ROM drives. In my case, uninstalling the drives, and then the controllers from within device manager, then rebooting the system fixed the problem.
Can you tell us a bit more about your box? What operating system? What model drives?
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Anonymous2007-04-03 16:44 ID:pYVHnFlB
Check cables
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Anonymous2007-04-04 4:17 ID:oPMQUrZP
Check jumpers.
The drive at the end of an IDE cable should be set to MASTER.
The drive in the middle should be set to SLAVE.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 4:48 ID:X0vNOdz5
Cable Select (CS) for teh win!
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Anonymous2007-04-04 9:58 ID:wh2CjpoO
>>4
WTF
The drive set to MASTER should be MASTER...
The drive set to SLAVE should be SLAVE...
Fucking noobs