[OT] Connecting two hard drives on same IDE cable

[Jacques B.]

On 8/29/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the computers I've ever built had two hard drives. I always
> install the master on the cable connector closest to the motherboard,
> and the slave on the far end. I don't recall having problems with this
> setup, which I learned because I have had motherboards that would not
> recognize a master if it was on the end. Now, I have read from a
> respected data-recovery source that the slave should in fact be on the
> connector closest to the motherboard and the master on the end. Is
> this accurate? What do the experienced people who frequent this list
> know?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
If you set a drive to cable select, the drive at the end of the IDE
ribbon cable will be master, and the one in the middle will be slave.
Of course you can choose to pin a drive master and place it in the
middle if you wish and the slave pinned accordingly and set at the
end.  But the norm is master at the end.

Jacques B.