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Answer» what will happen if i CONNECT the IDE cable in wrong way. instead i connect the slave connector to DVD-ROm i connect it to the motherboard, and i connect the connector to DVD-rom instead of motherboard... what will happen if i connect the IDE cable in wrong way. instead i connect the slave connector to DVD-ROm i connect it to the motherboard, and i connect the connector to DVD-rom instead of motherboard... I didn't understand a word of that. Are you saying that you are not going to connect the ide cable to the motherboard? If so, how do you think the drives will work!!I think the OP means that :- "On an IDE cable, the three connectors are DESIGNATED Motherboard Slave Master What will happen if I do not stick to this?" Quaxo answered, Quote Um, nothing bad. Depending on what kind of cable is used, that answer can be correct or totally wrong. 1. A standard 40 wire IDE cable ... fine. 2. A later 80 wire IDE cable ... reduced PERFORMANCE or disk(s) not recognised. 3. A "cable select" cable... as for (2). No, my answer is not totally wrong. The OP gave a very vague question and received such as an answer. By "nothing bad", I was simply saying that nothing permanently damaging will happen to the drives.Quote from: quaxo on June 09, 2008, 05:19:20 PM By "nothing bad", I was simply saying that nothing permanently damaging will happen to the drives. That is quite true. However, if you force an IDE connector upside down into a disk drive , you can permanently ruin the disk drive (a PIN gets broken). II=====================================II=========II MBoard Slave MasterQuote from: Dias de verano on June 10, 2008, 12:08:48 AM Quote from: quaxo on June 09, 2008, 05:19:20 PMBy "nothing bad", I was simply saying that nothing permanently damaging will happen to the drives. Well, then they'd be a fool for doing so, wouldn't they? Quote from: quaxo on June 10, 2008, 05:20:53 PM Well, then they'd be a fool for doing so, wouldn't they? They'd be fools indeed if they did it knowingly. It does happen; it has happened to someone on here. The symptom is very slow operation (pin 21, which enables DMA transfer, is the one that gets broken). |
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