From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

> I recognize the "master" and "slave" thing, have
seen that many
> times (not from inside the box though!), this box (that I'm on
> right now I mean) has two hard drives which are the masters
> and two CD's (one read-only, one read-write) which are the
> slaves... Are you saying that no longer applies, there is no more
> master/slave thing?

There is, but there is also a "cable select" option. It's usually
in the same jumper row, and that one means that the device (hd) will
determine wether it is a master or a slave depending on where it is in the
cable. There can be two devices in one cable, and if both (or one; the
other can be set to master/slave) are set as "cable select",
they'll figure out which one all by themselves.


> If there are ONLY TWO unattached cables in the box and I have
> to plug both of them into the drive to do this, ok, I can probably
> manage.

You can, and think about the warm fuzzy feeling of success you'll get out
of it. And you get to wear a "Hardware person" hat for at least a
month ;-)


> If I have to KNOW anything, it's a different story.    :(

The drives won't break if you plug them in the wrong cables or have the
jumpers wrong (unless you use brutal force to drive a power cable to a data
slot ), so don't worry about it. What will happen if the cables
are wrong is that the system either won't boot (hangs in the BIOS screen
with an error message), or it will boot from the wrong disk (if you have
two bootable devices).

Go for it.


Antti Kurenniemi

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