If you've got a free PCI slot, you can add another IDE controller.
Something like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=list&SubCategory=410
-Kevin
On 5/13/05, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So all of this makes sense. However - inside my computer the IDE
> cont
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> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: another dumb computer question - IDE+SATA drives
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> So all of this makes sense. However - inside my computer the IDE
> co
Typically, there will be 2 connectors on the mobo or controller card.
Grab a ribbon cable from somewhere else (like your defunct older box)
and hook up the IDE drive on the other connector.
This will also often make the drive read/write faster, as the controller
is forced to operate at the speed o
So all of this makes sense. However - inside my computer the IDE
controller currently has a ribbon going to the DVD burner. The ribbon
has another connector I could hook the drive to - but the ribbon is
too far away from where it would go. I think I'm stuck.
On 5/13/05, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dude, they have totally different cables. They run off different
controllers. You can add the IDE drive if you have an IDE controller in
the box (my mobo has both).
If you want to boot from it, you'll probably have to change the boot
order in the BIOS.
--Ben
Raymond Camden wrote:
> On my old P
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> 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
> s
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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
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 s
