> -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:40 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: another dumb computer question - IDE+SATA drives > > On my old PC, a few months ago, I added a new IDE drive to the box. I > set it in 'choose' mode I think, which meant it would notice that it > needed to be a slave and would set itself as such. > > On my new box my primary drive is a SATA drive. Is it safe to assume I > can't slave the IDE drive to it? If so - what is the proper way to add > it? Or should I take the easy way out and move the drive to a case I > have the transforms internal drives to external usb 2 drives?
"Master/Slave" terminology is specific to IDE only. Two drives/devices can share the same connection and need to be identifiable. You only need to worry about it if your adding two IDE devices to the same channel. For SATA or SCSI this isn't the case - you get IDs in SCSI but with SATA I think this all handled under the covers. In short if your Mobo has both SATA and IDE just plug in the IDE drive as a master to that connection. The BIOS should be able to set the boot order (such that the IDE drive will not be the bootable drive) and you should be set. Obviously you want your SATA drive to be your boot device. Some BIOSs (like my old one) are touchy about things (I could set my IDE connection NOT to be the boot drive - if a drive was connected it always went there rather than the second IDE controller - very annoying). There is a small chance that you won't be able to set up the SATA drive as the boot disc - but with modern BIOSs this is really unlikely. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157450 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
