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Simple, newbie question...

Sulaco

Sulaco

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hey all,

Alright, I have a very newbieish question I have to ask.
I have 2 hard drives, 1 western digital which is in my PC now, and another 30 gig maxtor thats sitting in a box collecting dust. My motherboard has 2 physical IDE connection ports (one which my HDD is in, the other my CDRW is in) and a floppy port.
I want to be able to have BOTH hard drives in the case and connected and be able to choose between which one I want to boot from. How do I physically attach the other HDD when there is no other IDE port??

 
Well each of those IDE ports are capable of having 2 devices per port...IE master and slave...take a look at the cables and they should have a connector mid cable....That is for the slave device....

The real question for you will be what will be in your best interest to place that device with one of the other....Will yo ube transferring files a lot between the 2 drives?? Will you try to burn cds on the fly from both drives??
 
The cables that connect the mother board to one of your exsisting devices (HDD, CDROM) should have another connector in the middle. Set the dusty hard drive to 'Slave' with the jumper on the back. Connect the middle connector of the IDE cable to it and there you go.
 
Firewire is a type of cable and transfer method...It is faster then USB1 and USB2 (I believe) but not widely as accepted. It is generally being used to connect Digital cameras and other optical external devices needing tremendous throughput. You could get a firewire card and then an external HDD in a firewire case but it is rather expensive....

Leave firewire to the Dig cameras....

What is the mobo you are running doing interms of ATA??? Is it ATA33,ATA66,ATA100, etc....
 
Originally posted by: Duvie
Firewire is a type of cable and transfer method...It is faster then USB1 and USB2 (I believe) but not widely as accepted. It is generally being used to connect Digital cameras and other optical external devices needing tremendous throughput. You could get a firewire card and then an external HDD in a firewire case but it is rather expensive....

Leave firewire to the Dig cameras....

What is the mobo you are running doing interms of ATA??? Is it ATA33,ATA66,ATA100, etc....
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ypu, pretty much. Firewire (also called IEEE 1394 for PCs--'firewire' is trademarked by Apple) is at 400Mbps (50MB/s) and USB 2.0 is at 480Mbps (60MB/s)...Mbps = Megabits per second while MB/s = MegaBytes per second.
 
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