Cdrom / HDD IDE setup problems, help me pls

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Avalonthas

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An old computer i got wasnt working so i parted it out to try and resolve the issue by testing each part individually in my test computer. They all worked fine, i guess a power cable was just loose. I forgot to note where the jumpers/cables were so when i changed them to work in my test rig i forgot what they were set to. I am trying to put it back together and everything is okay, except there is only one IDE for the cdrom/hdd and one IDE for the two floppy drives. The computer wont recognise the cdrom but it will recognise the HDD...i don know how to fix it. I set the jumped of the HDD (Conner CFS541A) to master and the cdrom to slave (AOpen CD-952E) but it still wont recognise the cdrom. Any ideas???

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(BTW I have no disks or media in the cdrom drive nor the floppies incase anyone suggests that lol. When i ckcik any key it just says the same crap over and over.) I didnt know old computers were so frusturating lol.
 
cabling issue, I'd bet.

Master in the middle, slave at the end?
 
I put the master at the end and slave in the middle. Im not that good at setting up hardware but im definetly not that bad lol. so its not a cable mess up...... ah well, goes into the trash i guess
 
Well, umm, for a mobo that old, I'd suggest master in the middle, slave at the end.

My Tyan trinity mobo tells me to do that (k6-2 mobo) so I was merely suggesting it.

No loss if you leave, less effort on my part to offer a suggestion that might help you out with dated hardware.
 
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