* andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-31 22:30]: > Stupid question of the day, when I goto install the DVD drive which will > be replacing my CD Rom, do I just plug it into the power and IDE and > sound card cables, make it the master and then turn on to configure.
(Not such a stupid question, this stuff can be pretty confusing. The IDE setup is kind of stupid IMHO, doesn't make the questions so. To answer your questions:). Probably, if you just plug it in the same way the current CD-ROM is installed. It usually depends on where on the IDE cable you plug the DVD drive in. A standard IDE cable goes motherboard<-->slave<-->master. Some cables just have motherboard<-->master. So, you plug the master drive into the end of the IDE cable, the slave is plugged in to the connector in the middle of the cable. If you only have the one drive it should be plugged in to the end of the cable and it is the master. This is standard for any drives plugged in to the IDE controller, I think. > I also have a CD burner which I installed last week so do I set the > jumper (on the DVD to master the jumper on the CD burner is set to > slave)to master? Same issue - where is the drive on the IDE cable? Sounds like you're right. If the burner is plugged into the middle connector on the IDE cable, and the DVD drive is plugged in to the end of the cable, then the burner is slave, DVD drive is master. Sounds like you know what you're doing. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
