Multiple Hard Disk Drives

Post by **deject** » July 12th, 2005, 23:18

amblin wrote:I demand holographic hard drives in my runabout! Fire phazers!

On the subject of HDDs though... Do we not use that lovely little jumper to dictate either master, slave or cable select? I'm sure thats what I've done in a couple of PCs I've added to.

Am I out of date here? Normally I am. Or just talking bollocks.

you are fast going out of date! SATA is taking over...

amblin · Post by **amblin** » July 13th, 2005, 9:24

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » July 13th, 2005, 11:10

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that the first connector from the motherboard is the master when using cable select, and the second connector from the motherboard is the slave etc...

I don't think it matters. Just as long as you've got the master jumper set on the drive with the OS installed and slave on the other, it's fine, or it is on mine at least.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 13th, 2005, 11:52

master and slave should be set properly on PATA drives.

the nearest to the mobo is always master.