Issues with adding extra drive to my dell 3000.

Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
and added the power cable.

The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
This did not happen on the C drive.

So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
drive.

Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
Slave drive Ultra DMA 2

I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.

Thanks for your time.

Enable the second drive in your BIOS. BTW, both drives should be cabled for
Cable Select. The drive at the end of the cable will be the master.


"htmark98" <> wrote in message
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> Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
> installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
> and added the power cable.
>
> The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
> loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
> music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
> either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
> This did not happen on the C drive.
>
> So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
> drive.
>
> Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
> Slave drive Ultra DMA 2
>
> I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
> know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>

He's right. The problem is the drive is still OFF in the BIOS. Needs to be
AUTO. In OFF, it works, but in UDMA 2 (PIO) mode.

He's also right about Cable Select.


"WSZsr" <> wrote in message
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> Enable the second drive in your BIOS. BTW, both drives should be cabled
> for Cable Select. The drive at the end of the cable will be the master.
>
>
> "htmark98" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>> Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
>> installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
>> and added the power cable.
>>
>> The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
>> loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
>> music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
>> either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
>> This did not happen on the C drive.
>>
>> So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
>> drive.
>>
>> Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
>> Slave drive Ultra DMA 2
>>
>> I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
>> know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>
>

I had an issue with two newer drives, I could not get the second drive to
work.
I had the main drive set to master and secondary to slave. What I discovered
was
the main drive had two master settings. One for a stand alone and one for
master with a slave.
As soon as I changed the jumpers to master with slave all was fine. Also
like the other posters have suggested check your bios and make sure the
drive is being recognized.
"htmark98" <> wrote in message
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> Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
> installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
> and added the power cable.
>
> The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
> loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
> music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
> either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
> This did not happen on the C drive.
>
> So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
> drive.
>
> Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
> Slave drive Ultra DMA 2
>
> I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
> know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>

But that's still wrong. All drives should be set to Cable Select in a Dell.
The drive on the end of the cable becomes the master and on the middle of
the cable becomes the slave.

What you did works, if it is on the right position in the cable, but is
technically incorrect.
"BigJim" <> wrote in message
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>I had an issue with two newer drives, I could not get the second drive to
>work.
> I had the main drive set to master and secondary to slave. What I
> discovered was
> the main drive had two master settings. One for a stand alone and one for
> master with a slave.
> As soon as I changed the jumpers to master with slave all was fine. Also
> like the other posters have suggested check your bios and make sure the
> drive is being recognized.
> "htmark98" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>> Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
>> installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
>> and added the power cable.
>>
>> The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
>> loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
>> music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
>> either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
>> This did not happen on the C drive.
>>
>> So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
>> drive.
>>
>> Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
>> Slave drive Ultra DMA 2
>>
>> I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
>> know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>
>

Agreed... Ben Myers

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:27:09 GMT, "Tom Scales" <> wrote:

>But that's still wrong. All drives should be set to Cable Select in a Dell.
>The drive on the end of the cable becomes the master and on the middle of
>the cable becomes the slave.
>
>What you did works, if it is on the right position in the cable, but is
>technically incorrect.
>"BigJim" <> wrote in message
>news:3vKdnW_-lf-...
>>I had an issue with two newer drives, I could not get the second drive to
>>work.
>> I had the main drive set to master and secondary to slave. What I
>> discovered was
>> the main drive had two master settings. One for a stand alone and one for
>> master with a slave.
>> As soon as I changed the jumpers to master with slave all was fine. Also
>> like the other posters have suggested check your bios and make sure the
>> drive is being recognized.
>> "htmark98" <> wrote in message
>> news: oups.com...
>>> Hi i'm having a few issues with the installation of my new HDD. I have
>>> installed a new 160gb samsung drive with a brand new 2 way ide cable
>>> and added the power cable.
>>>
>>> The main drive is set to master and the 2nd drive is set to slave. It
>>> loaded fine and formated the HDD straight away. So got around adding my
>>> music collection to this drive from my C drive. But when i go into
>>> either media player or winamp the songs skip alot and are very poor.
>>> This did not happen on the C drive.
>>>
>>> So went into the device manager and selected the settings for the
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> Main Drive Ultra DMA 5
>>> Slave drive Ultra DMA 2
>>>
>>> I have tried setting them both as cable select but still no joy. Anyone
>>> know what is going wrong here and what i can do to fix it please.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>
>>
>

"Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net> wrote in message
news:...
> Agreed... Ben Myers
>


Word up on the jumpers.


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