Re: CD-ROM and Hard Drive on Same Cable

They are both powered up at once. There's no other way. I'm not sure how this helps detect whether the HD is alive. The CD drive has an LED, which turns on immeidately.

CJT wrote:
Watty wrote:


It's been awhile since I played hook up with drives. Here's my problem. I
have a CD-ROM drive at the end of a cable. It works fine. I thought I'd
stick a HD in as a slave. It doesn't get detected. I made it a slave.
However, I have no idea what the CD-ROM thinks it is--Ah, master according
to BIOS. It looks like it has two jumpers. (What are the jumper
possibilities for it?) It's a 56x Disc shown in BIOS as G6D M1.30. I'm
pretty sure the cables are 48-pin. The HD is a boot disk from an older
system, and is in a removable drive (handle on front). It seems seated and
I'm pretty confident it's powered up, although the removable container has
no LED. (I switched power with the CD-ROM to test it.)

Try powering both up at once.

Is it not
possible to
put a HD on the same cable with a CD-ROM?


It's possible.

The CD-ROM is on the end of it's cable. The connector at the end of the
cable has one (center) pin missing, so I can't put the HD in it.

I could put the HD on the same cable with my W2K boot-up HD, but the cable
positioning is a little weird. I'd need to re-arrange the position of the
removable drive a bit.



--
Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)

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