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| Nickelob Ultra:
--- Quote from: ZERØ on December 08, 2015, 02:40:25 AM ---IDE and Ribbon cable is a bit confusing for me, The whole slave thing I still don't understand, tried fixing up and old Windows 98 computer I had in the garage and when it came to putting it back together the CD rom did not read anymore but the floppy did, we never figured it out so that old pc went to the recycling plant because we couldn't reinstall the OS on it, 98 did not come in floppy drives and a computer that old does not support booting from usb. --- End quote --- It's very easy, IDE plugs and ribbon cable plugs are just big 40/80 pin plugs that have a little notch on them for foolproof fitting. "Master" and "slave" drives are just legacy terms to indicate drives 0 and 1. |
| ZERØ:
--- Quote from: Nickelob Ultra on December 08, 2015, 02:44:42 AM ---It's very easy, IDE plugs and ribbon cable plugs are just big 40/80 pin plugs that have a little notch on them for foolproof fitting. "Master" and "slave" drives are just legacy terms to indicate drives 0 and 1. --- End quote --- Oh well that makes much more sense, but can you leave one unplugged and go onto the other? Like 0 and 2, I though there was limitations to it, and isn't there 2 variants of it though? I heard there was a ribbon cable variant with double the wires but the same pins. |
| espio100:
--- Quote from: Skig² on December 07, 2015, 10:38:41 PM ---I might get it tomorrow at Micro Center. Many of the reviews say it works better than a wired connection (not an option for me). Hopefully I'll like it. --- End quote --- PM me how it works some day :^) |
| Nickelob Ultra:
--- Quote from: ZERØ on December 08, 2015, 02:48:49 AM ---Oh well that makes much more sense, but can you leave one unplugged and go onto the other? Like 0 and 2, I though there was limitations to it, and isn't there 2 variants of it though? I heard there was a ribbon cable variant with double the wires but the same pins. --- End quote --- You can leave one unplugged and go onto the other AFAIK but make sure you correctly mark master drive with the provided jumper. |
| mod-man:
can we also ask for help here? in an effort to uninstall a bad driver a couple days ago, i accidentally uninstalled the usb controller for my computer. will my keyboard still work to get into the bios? i think i can fix it from there, but literally nothing i plug into my computer works now |
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