Hi! I have this problem and I'd like to hear your opinions. First - the PC has a GIGABYTE GA-8I945PV-G motherboard with 3 IDE channels. There is one IDE cable plugged into the IDE_1 and the other two ends should be placed on a HDD and a CD/DVD device. The HDD has three pin settings - Maser (1 drive); Slave; Cable Select - the CD/DVD device has also three settings - Master, Slave, Cable Select. Now I need to make this working. I have one IDE cable. So, the only obvious way is to make both Cable Select, right. Well, not that simple - the PC wouldn't find anything. If I put either of the devices on Cable Select and leave them alone on the cable, they would get detected. Unfortunately, one can't define the CD/DVD a Slave and the HDD a Master, since the only pin setting available besides Cable Select is Master (1 drive), which (it's a Samsung, btw) makes it not suited. So, taking another IDE cable and putting it into IDE_2 should make it work - every device has its own channel and can be the only master (like a brother and sister need two seperate rooms ). Well, nah, the PC wouldn't recognize that there's anything in the IDE_2 channel. Could be a mobo problem? So, what do you say? Update: The IDE cable I was working with was one of those weirdos without any notches or anything that'd tell you how to plug it in. Anyways, I took a normal IDE cable I had lying around and all of a sudden Cable select works. You see, not that I did't try ALL possible ways to plug that freak IDE cable onto the mobo... maybe it was that cable? sheesh
There should be a red stripe on the IDE cable and that stripe should be positioned beside the power connector. It's also indicative of Pin 1, which must be lined up on the motherboard.
there was no indicative pin and there was a red line along the whole cable - as I said, somewhat of a weirdo cable that one is - but anyways (again, as I said), took another cable and it went smoothly flying
