I have a SATA Blu Ray Drive in my PC at the moment. However I want to put in my old DVDRW drive back in too. It's IDE, not SATA. What do I have to set the jumper too? Master?
If you have no other IDE devices, then just Master
[QUOTE=Publius;29851106]I have a SATA Blu Ray Drive in my PC at the moment. However I want to put in my old DVDRW drive back in too. It's IDE, not SATA. What do I have to set the jumper too? Master?[/QUOTE]
The IDE jumper only affects devices on that IDE cable (most IDE cables can connect 2 devices to the mobo). Since the SATA drive isn't on the IDE cable, you should set the IDE drive either to "auto" or "master".
Thanks guys. This excludes Hard Drives, which are on a different IDE cable, right?
[QUOTE=Publius;29851309]Thanks guys. This excludes Hard Drives, which are on a different IDE cable, right?[/QUOTE]
The jumper setting only affects devices on that cable (each cable can have a master and a slave). So hard drives on another cable don't affect it.
Super, many thanks.
Actually. Also, other than the IDE cable and the power cable to the drive, do I need to plug anything else into it? It's got some connections labelled digital and analog audio but I can't remember ever using these...
[QUOTE=gman003-main;29851148]The IDE jumper only affects devices on that IDE cable (most IDE cables can connect 2 devices to the mobo). Since the SATA drive isn't on the IDE cable, you should set the IDE drive either to "auto" or "master".[/QUOTE]
There is no "auto" setting. You have Master, Slave and Cable Select. Some drives are notorious for not working properly if they're the only device on the cable and they aren't set to Master (Maxtor, WD, and some optical drives). Using CS generally requires a special CS cable (has a square notch cut at the base of the motherboard end of the IDE cable.)
Cool, thanks. What about the audio cables (as above)?
[QUOTE=Publius;29868634]Cool, thanks. What about the audio cables (as above)?[/QUOTE]
On modern computers, they are not needed. They were for back when your CD drive acted as a literal CD player and played audio straight to the sound card (PC itself had nothing to do with the audio). They are pretty much only there for backward compatibility reasons.
Audio passthrough cables are a legacy from the days of yore when you had DOS real-mode ATAPI drivers. DOS didn't provide a way to transfer audio data over the IDE bus, so a passthrough cable was required to get audio data to the sound card.
Today they're just a redundancy, you aren't required to connect them to anything.
Ah, ok. It is a pretty old drive.
Thanks for all your help guys!
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