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SATA and IDE are operated on different buses, with different controllers. A SATA drive is not considered a "master" or a "slave"; it has a channel all to itself. If the IDE drive is by itself on the controller, it should be set as Master.
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How many hard drive can you connect on a motherboard with 4 sata and 1 ide controller?
To the IDE cable, 2 Hard disks can be connected as Master and Slave.(Hard disks that support IDE). 4 SATA ports could be used for 4 Hard Disks.
If a single hard disk is attached on a primary IDE channel what should the jumper be set to?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
What should the primary jumper be set to On a primary IDE channel if a single hard disk is attached?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
Maximum Hdd's on motherboard with 4 SATA and IDE controler?
You can only have 1 Sata HDD per Sata connector, however on IDE you can have 2 IDE, 1 set to master the other to Slave or if supported both set to CSS (Cable Select). So you can have 4 Sata HDD and 2 IDE HDD per IDE channel. One thing you need to be aware of is your Power Supply. Make sure it is capable of handling such a load or you will get write errors on the Drives. Hope that helps.
Sata drives can a optical drive be master when its a ide?
An IDE Drive is not the same as a SATA drive, for starters. If you want your optical drive to be the master on an IDE channel you can jumper it to make it such. The second drive on the IDE channel must then be jumpered as a slave. If the optical drive is the only drive on the channel then it ought to be jumpered as the master. Alternatively, you may be able to set both drives to "Cable Select" and let the cable position determine the priority. This presumes that your ribbon cable is of a newer design and supports this option.
What is the difference between master IDE and slave IDE?
In computing, the terms "master IDE" and "slave IDE" refer to the primary and secondary IDE devices connected to the IDE bus on a motherboard. The master IDE device is the main drive that controls the bus and handles data transfers, while the slave IDE device is a secondary drive that operates under the control of the master device. Each IDE channel can have one master and one slave device connected to it.
When installing an IDE hard drive's configuration a master or slave is handled?
the hard drive should be set to master...
What are the four possible configurations for four IDE devices in a system?
Primary IDE Channel , Master Device Primary IDE Channel , Slave Device Secondary IDE Channel , Master Device Secondary IDE Channel , Slave Device
Two western digital hard drives one IDE and other is on Sata cable The Sate is Master but can not get the IDE WD to work or reconize?
Western digital needs to have no jumper to be by itself on a cable, or bios sometimes shares the sata as ide0 and so change your sata port and enable one as ide and the other channel as sata.
Ide hard drive can be slave with sata hard drive?
No Master Slave designation needed. SATA Drives are plug-add-play. Improve: SATA (Serial) Attached Drives improve data tansfer speeds up to 10-100 GBytes/per. eSATA are (Externally) Serial-Attached Drives and SATA-II(Sata-2) Drives transfer data @ 300GBytes/per. The next barrier of TerraByte data transfer has been developed and is already in production with a (SATA-3) designation attached
What's the difference between IDE and SATA hard drives?
The simple answer? Not much. The truth is SATA and IDE devices use mostly the same components and logic. The biggest difference is the interface: the IDE standard uses ribbon cables with flat, wide connectors that allow more than one drive (a "master" and a "slave") to be connected at the same time. The SATA standard uses a smaller connector with a more narrow cable that allows only one device per channel (read "plug"). SATA will, however, perform better in RAID applications. As IDE is an aging technology, it is wise to buy SATA devices for most future purchases.
An IDE cable has both a master and a slave connection?
yes
