IDE hard drive question

[Reckoning]

On a computer i own there was 1 IDE hard drive and it was running low on space so i bought another IDE hard drive. I bought an IDE cable that had 3 connections (1 for motherboard, 2 for other IDE connections) When i hooked up both of the open IDE connections to each of the hard drives windows would not boot, so i messes around a bit and noticed if i have the 1st connection on motherboard, 2nd (middle) connection no being used, and the 3rd and final connection on my old drive windows boots fine. Im not a comp pro so i was wondering if anyone knew what i could do? Can you run 2 hard drives off 1 IDE cable? Another computer i have uses 1 connection for CD ROM and another for hard drive.. is that the only available thing you can do? Thanks in advance for any comments

 

[kimsland]

Can you run 2 hard drives off 1 IDE

Yes
On the back of the ATA HardDrives, you will see a little jumper
Put both jumers on CS (Cable Select)
Put the Bootable Windows HardDrive in the middle, and the other on the end

If it doesn't work, try M (Master) on the Main Drive, and Slave on the end one.

 

[Reckoning]

Yes
On the back of the ATA HardDrives, you will see a little jumper
Put both jumers on CS (Cable Select)
Put the Bootable Windows HardDrive in the middle, and the other on the end

If it doesn't work, try M (Master) on the Main Drive, and Slave on the end one.

The new hard drive didnt come with any jumpers, how do i get ahold of 1?

 

[kimsland]

Without any jumpers in the back, what does the HardDrive say that it's set to ? (CS ?)

 

[Reckoning]

Without any jumpers in the back, what does the HardDrive say that it's set to ? (CS ?)

What do you man what does it say its set to? The comp didnt boot up while having that drive connected so i dont know what its set to

 

[kimsland]

There's a picture or diagram on the HardDrive, or sometimes just little letters saying M CS

You need to check the picture out, it'll probably be CS, just put the other drive to CS too (the main drive in the middle)

 

[Reckoning]

There's a picture or diagram on the HardDrive, or sometimes just little letters saying M CS

You need to check the picture out, it'll probably be CS, just put the other drive to CS too (the main drive in the middle)

Got it working, thanks kimsland

 

[kimsland]

Well done
I'm assuming it's all CS now (where as before, it was M and the other CS which won't work, as you found)

 

[Reckoning]

Well done
I'm assuming it's all CS now (where as before, it was M and the other CS which won't work, as you found)

Well i actually dont know what my master/windows drive is set to. They way i had to mount the 2nd drive made it damn near impossible to get to my main drive so what i did was just found a jumper from an old motherboard i dont use anymore.. and put it to CS on the new drive. Put the master/windows drive at the end of the cable and the new/slave drive in the middle with the CS jumper. Works fine now

 

[kimsland]

OK

Well hopefully you got an 80 wire type on the IDE cable
I'm sure it suppose to be in the middle. Oh well.