Author Topic: Need a quick answer on harddrive installing (Read 240 times)

SunKing · « **on:** June 24, 2005, 05:06:57 PM »

I have a Serial ATA Hard Drive and a old school IDE Harddrive. I want to install the ATA drive as my c: master drive and the IDE as the slave d: How do I set this up correctly? Do I need to jump the IDE driver or cable select it in anyway? Is it a bios setting to determine the master drive? Helps appreciated in detail so I can get this beast back together.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2005, 05:27:03 PM »

Does your motherboard have an SATA connector? Or are you using a controller card?

As far as setting master or slave on a drive, there should be a legend on the top of the HD. Jumpers are usually used to set master and slave relationships. Cable select is an iffy deal.

AFAIK, you cant set the IDE drive to the slave on the same chain because IDE and SATA use different connections and different controllers (dont know if thats what you were asking or not, but thats what it seemed). What you COULD do is setup your C drive as SATA and later on invest in another SATA drive. The D drive can be a slave on your IDE chain with your CD-ROM (for now). But I think that would pretty much rule out a RAID setup, if thats what you were shooting for, until you can get a second SATA drive.

SunKing · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2005, 05:38:13 PM »

Well the serial drive connects with one of these cables. Its not on a raid or a card.

If I just connect them both the pc sees the IDE as c: and the ATA drive as d: I want to swap that.

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2005, 06:14:25 PM »

it'll be in the bios, you have to tell it to see the sata first

set both to master as they are on different controllers

SunKing · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2005, 06:16:11 PM »

Great thanks.