the following table shows the posts together with their similarity valuesposition similarity excerpt from post boot problem with ide controller hii've got multi / card (ide controller serial/parallel interfaceand two floppy drives ( / / and quantum prodrive at connected to it was able to format the hard diskbut could not boot from it can boot from drive (which disk drive does not matterbut if remove the disk from drive and press the reset switchthe led of drive acontinues to glowand the hard disk is not accessed at all guess this must be problem of either the multi / card\nor floppy disk drive settings (jumper configuration?does someone have any hint what could be the reason for it ide cable just bought new ide hard drive for my system to go with the one already had my problem is this my system only had ide cable for one driveso had to buy cable with two drive connectors on itand consequently have to switch cables the problem isthe new hard drive\' manual refers to matching pin on the cable with both pin on the drive itself and pin on the ide card but for the life of me cannot figure out how to tell which way to plug in the cable to align these secondlythe cable has like connector at two ends and one between them figure one end goes in the controller and then the other two go into the drives does it matter which plug into the "masterdrive and which into the "slave"any help appreciated