Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 9:14 pm, Earl Gibbs wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
I have two basic hardware questions, concerning hard drives in
trays which plug into the computer.
Firstly, if there are several hard drives, each with a different
OS on, should they all be of the same make and model? Will
booting from drives of different makes "confuse" the BIOS, or
doesn't it care?
Secondly, does it matter if some trays are labelled UDMA133 and
others UDMA60/100 - assuming they all slot into the same carrier?
Hope the answer to both questions is that it doesn't matter -
it'll get me out of a bit of a mess!!
Sorry this isn't directly related to Mandriva!
Thanks for any advice.
Keith
Keith
I have used trays for several years and the UDMA133 and UDMA60/100
has not caused any problems. My system has seven hard drives, six
for different OS, one for data (which is fat32 and available to all
OS).
Your BIOS need to be set to AUTO detect - of the hard drives .
By the way I am using very cheap plastic trays. Some as cheap as
$10.
This is much better than dual booting and lets you know for sure
that a problem with one OS is not a hardware problem.
Also if you have a detection problem you can see what drivers other
OS use to run your hardware.
Earl Gibbs
Earl.
Thank you for your reply.
I have been using trays for over two years now, without any problems.
Like you, I much prefer keeping the different OS's completely
separate rather than multi-booting.
One tray's connector/ribbon cable has definitely gone faulty, and
another's is suspicious. (too much changing around of the hard drives
inside them!) I have a couple of old UDMA66/100 trays not used, so
that is why I asked about mixing 66/100 and 133.
Also, for the past three or four days, the computer has started doing
peculiar things (which I won't bore the list with). I have a mixture
of hard drives and was wondering if that could suddenly be having any
bearing on the problem.
It will be a week or more before I can get to my nearest computer
shop, so I wanted an interim solution.
Thanks again for your reply.
Cheers
Keith
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Sorry, but I have had one "dirty contact" problem with the cheap
hard drive trays that was easly solved.
I got a can of Radio Shack contact cleaner and did a quick spray
of the connector on the hard drive tray. then inserted it into the rack.
It has worked every time.
Earl Gibbs
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