R Cubed Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) Sorry if this is out of place but I am after some technical help. Maxtor 40Gb hard drive which I need to use as a slave on an existing desk top pc where does the jumper position go as in the pics ?? Also if this is set as a slave will the XP opperating system on it effect the starting of the computer............. Edited October 21, 2008 by R Cubed jumper labeling on HD cover turned over to relate to the jumper pin position Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It looks like it's set to cable select from the photos. If you want it to be a slave remove the jumper, if you want it to be a master move the jumper one to the left. You can change the boot order in the BIOS to make sure it boots from another drive first. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 It looks like it's set to cable select from the photos. If you want it to be a slave remove the jumper, if you want it to be a master move the jumper one to the left. You can change the boot order in the BIOS to make sure it boots from another drive first. Chris Ok so CS is Cable Select, what does that do then ? what is DS ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Cable select means the position on the IDE cable determines if it is master or slave. It's been a while since I messed about with these so I can't remember which position on the cable is master. Not sure what DS stands for, but it means you use the jumper to set the master or slave. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Ahh is cable select when the ide ribbon cable has twists in some of the strands before one of the connectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) On cable select the disk takes it's setting (Master or Slave from it's position on the ribbon cable - if you look at the cable you'll note that there are two connection blocks at one end and one at the other - singleton end goes into the motherboard, opposite end is, IIRC, the Master whilst the second, inboard, one in is the Slave. DS is, again IIRC, Direct Setting and is controlled by the jumpers on the disk. Normally used on older machines who's BIOS doesn't support cable select on the hard disks but can be used on machines that do. Reading the label on your disk if you remove the jumper altogether (or move it to the position with the single pin as shown on the diagram) you have then set it to DS Slave. Wow - the last 18 years weren't wasted after all!!!! Edited October 21, 2008 by ArtistsRifles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 So once it is set as a slave, the computer wont try and use the operating system which is installed on it :shocked: or will it still try and run it and mess up the computer ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Yes - if it's set as the slave drive then, provided the BIOS is told to ignore it, any O/S installed on it will be ignored. You will need to enter the BIOS on starting up the machine and check the boot sequence there - make sure there is no reference to either the slave or the D:\ drive or the disk type. A normal BIOS boot sequence is: A:\. CD-ROM, C:\ This is the order in which the PC looks to find a bootable disk. You could add the D:\ to the end of this if you wanted a fail-over in case of boot failure on the C:\ drive - not usually worth it though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 Yes - if it's set as the slave drive then, provided the BIOS is told to ignore it, any O/S installed on it will be ignored. You will need to enter the BIOS on starting up the machine and check the boot sequence there - make sure there is no reference to either the slave or the D:\ drive or the disk type. A normal BIOS boot sequence is: A:\. CD-ROM, C:\ This is the order in which the PC looks to find a bootable disk. You could add the D:\ to the end of this if you wanted a fail-over in case of boot failure on the C:\ drive - not usually worth it though!! Thanks Ummm on XP is it F10 to get the bios cant remember ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 It doesn't matter what OS you're using, it depends on which BIOS you have. It's usually DEL or F1. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 The man is absolutely right !!! The correct key to use is - usually - shown on screen for a few seconds as soon as you power the PC up and a signal is received by the monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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