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Solve : hd on slave of ide with optical on primary of same ide?? |
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Answer» Quote YOU haven't been paying attention to my descriptions. My SATA drive is not physically buggy, only the OS installed on it is. I Quote IDE that I can later clone onto my currently working but very buggy SATA drive Humpty dumpty... Well, alright, I'll let you get away with it for now. So, did you get around to hooking up the IDE drive yet? I wouldn't recommend setting a HDD you boot from as a slave but I can't recall that ever going wrong in any of my experiments. Did you post the model and make of you PC? Somehow we get the idea that you have only one IDE port. Does the BIOS allow boot drive options? Most modern BIOS wil let you boot from anything that can plug into a IDE cable anywhere on the cable. Here is flat cable hook up not often: Hard Drive ========Motherboard=================CD-Drive. Yeah, anywhere on the cable. (Not recommended, but don't know why and I don't want to know.) If it's the OS install that's buggy then clone the existing OS to the IDE and re-install the OS to the SATA... Then simply transfer your files and settings and any other data needed.Err...couldn't you (just for the meantime) set the optical drive to slave and run the HDD as master?? :S As I recall the IDE cables are set it a way so they should be like this from side on: Master | | | | Slave | | | | Motherboard_______ | (hey everyone else had diagrams i wanted one too ) Just have the IDE drive RESTING on top of the Disk drive if it's temporary. (It wont kill it or anything) I have a IDE Drive screwed in where an optical should be...just on one side above the writer and it doesnt flap about or anything it's solid as. Also, you didn't say...Does your optical burn DVD's? Just make a data DVD or two of your important things...wipe and take what you need off the DVD's and store them somewhere safe alright i know this is late, but i was definitely able to hook up the hd and optical drive on the same ide cable. mboard------------------------------------hd------optical. hd was set to slave and optical set to master. i believe it will also work with the opposite order and setting (mboard---opt--hd; hd master, opt slave). i tried that earlier but my windows installation wasnt working properly so i swapped it to the configuration i first showed in this post. (i FOUND it was my mistake. had to set the hd to active partition and turn off my sata to prevent confusion with the os on that machine...windows multiboot is retarded). Good to see it is fixedQuote My SATA drive is not physically buggy, only the OS installed on it is.Please take the SATA out of the system until this issue is resolved. Do not try to install a new copy of XP while a buggy version is present. Just makes things harder to understand. (The BIOS on one ASUS box here will rather boot from a buggy OS anywhere it can find it rather that boot from where I set it.) We don't know how your box behaves with a buggy OS present. So just discount the SATA for now and resolve the issue at hand. The original question. was about putting two ATAPI drives on one cable. Yes. Most IDE hard drives conform to ATAPI. You can do that. Set the HD as master, slave present. Set the CD-Drive as slave. put them both on the flat grey iIDE cable. Do it right. Don't bend the pins. Go into tBIOS, look at the IDE settings. Reboot, go back into BIOS. It should pick up both drives on the second or third try. { The BIOS requires two attempts. If it takes THREE or more attempts it is a issue with the external carbon-based unit. } Is that not what everybody already told you? Really, it will work. Unless something is broke or not compatible. |
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