As you found out, the floppy is totally different from an IDE device. IDE and EIDE use the same 40 pin cables and are the same thing basically, the E is just 'enhanced'. They use the IDE controllers on a motherboard. IDE is Integrated Drive Electronics (aka Intelligent Drive Electronics).
The floppy cable is a 34 pin cable connected to a motherboards floppy controller. Assuming your mobo is a typical board (you don't say what it is), you can hook up 2 IDE or EIDE devices PER controller for a total of 4. On each IDE controller, one must be jumpered as a master and the other a slave. The jumpers are on the rear of the drives and are usually labeled. (look for MS and SA or SL for 'master' and 'slave' respectively). -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com http://ComputerHardware-ConsumerElectronics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: PCWorks: IDE Questions One of my computers has a hard drive, a floppy drive and a CD-ROM. I want to put a CDRW on it so I took the cover off to see what I could see. I expected the hard drive and the floppy drive to be on the same ribbon cable thinking that the hard drive would be the master and the floppy would be the slave, and the CD-ROM would be on a second ribbon cable. What I found was each device connected to three different ribbon cables which in turn are connected to three different connectors on the mother board. Here's what I found in the device manager under hard disk controllers. Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo). Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo). Can someone teach me a little about all this? Since it says "IDE" does this mean that I can not use an "EIDE" device? Thank you, Tom ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
