In my first post I forgot question mark in the end of the first line. ***** Some hard drives and systems got a normal switch or a dip-switch, that can be used in stead of jumpers on pins. The jumpers position connects to pins, and then decide things like if the hard drive is going to be set to CSEL, Slave or Master. **** Jumper pins in this case is the small pins that is used for attaching/connecting small jumpers. So the 44 pins on a 2.5" drive = 40 pins + power connector on a 3.5" drive). (A standard 3.5" hard drive got 40 pins and an extra connector for power. *** a HDD with 44 pins is basically a standard 2.5" IDE(ATA/P-ATAT) hard drive. This setting is basically available so that you can choose which media comes first in boot order. ** Slave is one of 2(3) main settings that can be used on a storage media on a standard computer.
There's no jumper pins**** or switch***** on my HDD* for this, and it has to be Slave** for my system to work." "Is it possible to turn a HDD* into Slave** by connecting one of the 44 pins*** to another with a little peace of wire. I will explain it, by putting "*" (Stars) into it, and then explain the stars: If you read and understand my first 2 lines in the first post, the answer should be easy. Sorry.Īnd I don't want this thread to turn into complicated social issues, with allot of meta-communication, about who said what and why, with which intentions. So I'm grateful for that.īut in this case this is a difficult issue even for advanced computer technicians, so I definitely find standard answers to other simple and standard issues pretty annoying, when it's not relevant for this case. I know that most people here is doing an honest attempt solve my issue. Also, if you've got a standard CD-ROM that fits into a 5.25 bay, then unless it's some cheapo-booty-brand there has to be pin selectors to choose whether the ROM is Master, Slave, CableSelect I have yet to see a CD-ROM that fits into a standard 5.25 bay that does not have that pin select. Not for nothing but if are trying to connect this SD/MMC adapter and a CD-ROM and to the same ribbon cable, the CD-ROM drive should be the Slave and the SD/MMC adapter, given that it is recognized as a standard hard drive, should be made the Master. Does that mean it's a SFF LAN box? Or is it a mini tower? Or a laptop? Do you have any other IDE devices in the system aside from the one you are trying to make the slave? What steps have you taken to troubleshoot the issue? Do you have more than one IDE connector on the mobo? Did you provide the make/model of the device you are trying to make the Slave? You have not listed any system specs other than saying your computer is portable. I've been following this thread and I beleive that everyone who is replying is making an honest attempt solve your issue, but I also beleive that you are not explaining the circumstances very clearly. I don't believe there's a simple solution to this problem, so people don't answer unless you know a way around this problem.
Why does so many people answer this thread when they don't care to read the previous posts?!
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