On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:27 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to > 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard > drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the > ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the > current hard drive and CDRW are on the same ribbon (havn't checked > to see which is slave and which is master yet). from the posts > others have left about data transferring from one drive to the next > and bottlenecking, i figure the best way to set this up is to put > the new hard drive as a slave to the floppy drive. well, the > connector on the ribbon for the floppy drive isn't the right size > for the new hard drive, and the ribbon the CDRW and other hard > drive are on only has 2 connections. so i have to go out and buy a > new ribbon. figures! > Hold it - you can't put a hdd on a floppy connector - that's why the cable is a different size - it has fewer wires.
> my only other possibility is to use the 3rd IDE connection on the > motherboard, BUT, the motherboard wasn't new when i got it. bought > it from a friend who assembled the computer for me. he tried to > put the floppy, hard drive, and cdrw drive each on their own > ribbon, but said the 3rd ribbon port on the motherboard wouldn't > work. he couldn't figure out why. i can try to use it, but he > took his time putting the computer together and couldn't get it to > work no matter what he tried. i'll have to wait 3 more weeks til > he gets back from his honeymoon to get into detail with him on > everything he tried. > You could try the other connector again - Make sure that you have the jumper set to 'master' and the bios set to auto-detect for each drive. Check whether the bios is seeing the drive. Another ribbon will not help you - 2 devices per ribbon is your max. What might help is an add-on pci card that will give you additional drive connectors. Anne
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