Installing the Hard Drive and Floppy

A word about drive jumper settings.
Hard drives, and CD-ROM/DVD-Drives need to be given an "ID". This ID tells the computer in what order to access the drives and allows it to identify multiple drives on your computer. For our project we are installing two drives. For this reason, we will need to assign one drive as the Master and one as the Slave. As you saw in the video, our drive has a sticker on the back that tells us which jumper settings are used to set the ID we want. Your drive may have this information on the top of the drive, or somewhere in the packaging that came with it. Most new drives also have the jumper pins labeled like this: MS, SL, CS. These are Master, Slave, and Cable Select respectively. To set the drive as a master, you would jumper the MS pins. We are setting our hard drive as the Master because we plan on adding a DVD-ROM drive as the Slave. If we were not adding another drive, we would choose the CS jumper setting, also known as the Single Drive Setting. If for some reason you cannot identify what your jumper settings are, try contacting the manufacturer of your hard drive or visiting their website; most of the big hard drive manufacturers have all of their jumper settings online.

More complicated drive configurations.
If you have a more complicated configuration, e.g. you have two hard drives and one CD-ROM/DVD-drive, you will need to use the second IDE bus. In our example in the video, we attached both our hard drive and our DVD drive to one cable. This is called a "daisy-chain". Both drives were then plugged into our Primary IDE bus on the motherboard. If you look at your motherboard closely, you will also see a Secondary IDE bus. This can be used to attach more drives. This bus functions exactly like the Primary IDE bus we used; in other words, when you plug drives into this bus you will need to follow the Master/Slave conventions we have mentioned above. If you are adding just one drive to this bus, you should leave that drive in the CS or Single Drive setting.