Setting my old WDC WD600BB drive as the slave 1

[p1981]

Hi,
I just bought a new seagate ultra ata/100 HD. My old HD on the dell dimension 2350 was WDC WD600BB-75CAA0. I managed to copy my files from the old drive to the new one. Now I want the new one to be the master. So I connected the new one at the end of the cable (the black connector) and the new one at the middle (the gray connector). Now I have tried both the cable select and master/slave config. But either:
1. My BIOS only recognises just the new drive (actually, in this case, the name of the drive does not show up properly)
2. It recognises the new one as slave and old one as master (in this case, both names show up correctly).
3. OR, if I disconnect the old one from the power supply and mark the new one as master OR cable select, BIOS detects the new one correctly.

I think it is because I don't know the correct jumper position to mark the old drive to be in slave or cable select mode. Can anyone help me out? To be precise, can someone tell me how to indicate to the WDC drive to use (1) Cable select mode, and (2) Slave mode.

Thanks!

 

[p1981]

I already did that too. The jumpers are fine. The only thing I can not guarantee are the contact on the old drive. But they at least look ok. I think I will just let the old drive be the master unless someone else has some ideas.

 

[rvnguy]

Dont't know if your case has an open 5.25" bay closer to the top?? Nothing requires the HD's to be at the bottom.

Try making old drive a slave on the secondary IDE even if it just hangs, this will let you know if this is even a solution where you might want to buy something to allow this config.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[p1981]

If I were to put the old HD on the secondary cable, I might as well make it the master there. But the reason I said the HDs should go down was that the CD/DVD players should go up (because it is only from there that their trays can open out). There are two bays and I need both for the CD/DVD players.