I'm not sure if it makes a difference.. In OEM machines the Optical Drive usually takes the top slot and the HDD the middle. As long as your jumpers are set to slave and master the way you want them to be it should work which ever way round.
Nah with cable select, devices are automatically assigned master/slave roles based on their position on the cable.
If you manually set jumpers then the position doesn't really matter. A master drive can go in the middle.
Well it doesn't work like that in my system. The master ide device has to go on the end or they wont be detected at all. Also, my coolermaster rounded cables come with tabs at each connector telling you which is the master and which is the slave...so it can't only be my system that needs the master on a specific connector.
Well it doesn't work like that in my system. The master ide device has to go on the end or they wont be detected at all. Also, my coolermaster rounded cables come with tabs at each connector telling you which is the master and which is the slave...so it can't only be my system that needs the master on a specific connector.
Yeah, some systems I've worked on are very picky about where the hard-drive is located. But I've worked on machines they don't give a damn too.
According to page 14 of western digitals installation guide it states "The jumper position, not the position of the drive on the cable, designates a master or slave drive."
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I reccomend setting jumpers to Cable Select tho.
I always thought CS was only for one device on the cable, and the Master position as well.
Or am I displaying my ignorance yet again???
If you manually set jumpers then the position doesn't really matter. A master drive can go in the middle.
Yeah, some systems I've worked on are very picky about where the hard-drive is located. But I've worked on machines they don't give a damn too.