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30th May 2008, 12:41 AM
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 How important is master and slave? Just bought a new Samsung T166 500GB and a Raptor 76GB HD's. On the last build I did I had to but the sleeves on the corresponding jumpers to make one master and the other slave. On the back of these drives I just bought, they have the metal prongs but no sleeves and no indication as to what combination allows slave/master... Is this specified in BIOS now? Am I missing something completely? Do I even need to worry about this?! Apart from that the rest of the build is going smoothly...Managed to get all the hardware installed last night leaving the wiring and software side of things to take care of tonight. I plan to upload some pics when the project is complete! Thanks for any help
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30th May 2008, 12:59 AM
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| How important is master and slave? I don't think you need to assign master or slave to SATA drives. But in the bios, tell it which drive to boot from first (will speed up boot up) but apart from that, I don't think it matters.
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30th May 2008, 01:11 AM
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| How important is master and slave? Really? Because the last 2 HD's I had were also SATA. One of them was a Raptor 76 GB just like the new one I bought. But I think you may be on the right tracks...thanks for that 
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30th May 2008, 01:14 AM
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| How important is master and slave? well neither of the drives I have at the moment have any pins for jumpers, so I don't think it matters. I think one of the things the jumpers are for, is so you can limit the drive to be SATA1 rarther than SATA2 for older motherboards that don't support SATA2
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30th May 2008, 01:44 AM
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| How important is master and slave? An ATA drive setup can have 2 drives per cable, hence setting a master and a slave. SATA drives work one drive per cable, no jumpers need to be set, there is no master or slave. The jumpers on SATA drives are to limit speed/space for old OS's and mobos.
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