Slaving up a drive...

[Fayd]

okay, so...

i reformatted my main computer this week, and in my haste to move the disks to my new computer, forgot to pull a relatively necessary application off the harddisk.

No problem, my second machine's harddrive also has a copy of said application.. but it isnt accessible right now, because it has to be reformatted before being stuck into a computer.

and herein lies my problem


i'm wondering, would there be any problem with me slaving said harddrive out of my second machine into any other machine? it wont interfere with booting or anything? cause it's IDE, and boot drives for all other machines are SATA...

maybe i'm worrying for nothing...

 

[RVA3]

Master/slave jumpersettings have no correlation between IDE and ATA(-PI) drives. It is merely the position on the IDE cable. If it is on the end of the cable, it must be configured as master or cable select. If in the middle as slave or cable select.

Unless the drive is a WD P(arallel)ATA model, alone on the cable, in which case the jumper should be removed.

The primary S(erial)ATA-bootdrive preferably jumpered as Master (with jumper on the pins nearest to the IDE interface connector (no Cable Select, this is one position further away) and the secondary (bootable or not) must be jumpered as full Slave if they are connected to the same (IDE flat cable-interface). If you have two jumpers, then the second is mostly nearest the power cable of the HD drive. Slave is that drive with no jumper or with the jumper one position further away from the power cable of the HD drive.

For the record: there are 6, 9 and 10 pins configurations for jumpers on the HD drives, and also depending on brand and type of the HD drive. Several drawings can be found on internet. Just compare carefully seven items: 1) Master or Slave settings, 2) position on same flat cable (end or middle) or 3) other flat cable (end or middle), 4)brand, 5) type: IDE or SATA or PATA 6) numbers of jumper pins 7) number of jumpers: zero, one or two.

IDE jumper settings

PATA jumper settings

SATA models do not have jumpers. Serial-ATA does not require you to set jumpers and operates without them says one manufacturer, but another says:
ATA/IDE settings