Re: not enough IDE port for 3 device
- From: Impmon <impmon@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:45:29 GMT
On 11 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0700, "arrayprofile@xxxxxxxxx"
<arrayprofile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there, I just bought a Seagate IDE 400G hard drive and wanted to use
it as my second hard drive. My Dell desktop already has a SATA hard
drive. Unfortunately after I bought this hard drive, I found out that
my system board only has 1 IDE port which has already been used up for
2 device: a DVD ROM and a DVD burner. So now my question is:
1. can I use an IDE hard drive together with a SATA hard drive all
togther?
You could. I do know there are IDE to SATA adapter and vice versa. I
would suggest you take the DVD-ROM out and plug the 400 GB hard drive
there as the master. DVD burner are cheap nowday that using separate
DVD-ROM just for reading or video playback is redunant. And if you
rip CD or DVD, it is usually a lot faster to rip to hard drive first,
then burn to blank.
2. Can I try to get a IDE interface cable that has 3 connectors (1
master, 2 slaves) for connecting my IDE hard drive, in addition to the
2 DVD drives? I searched google, in one occasion (Years 1999 post) that
1 IDE port can only connect up to 2 devices, is that still true now? I
called DELL support, the guy said I can use this configuration, but I
am not sure if he really knows this.
Never heard of any official support for 3 IDE drives to pne port and I
think your DELL support got the computer cetrificate out of cracker
jack box. IDE cable has 3 connectors, one for the main board or IDE
card.
3. If I can use such a cable, where can I buy it? My 2 DVD drive is on
the top on the computer, and the hard drive is at the bottom of the
computer, so I need a cable that is extened quite a bit on the 3rd
connector.
Better to remove the DVD-ROM and put the hard drive right there.
5.25" mount for 3.5 drives are available cheaply. $5 from a decent
computer stores to about $20 from a big name stores like Best Buy.
4. My system board does has a floppy drive port which looks like an IDE
port, can someone know for sure a floppy drive is an IDE port which I
can use to hook up my hard drive?
If there are floppy to IDE adapter somewhere, it'd be slower than
molases. The IDE drive using parallel ATA can theorically sustain 133
mb/sec with realistic sustained rate of around 50MB/sec. Floppy drive
standard have not chanced in years and I believe they are about
4k/sec. Making a 4GB image of a DVD for ripping would take almost 300
hours to write to any hard drive on floppy drive port >_<
If I know this cause so many problem, I would have bought a SATA drive
instead. really pissed off
If you bought the hard drive locally, you could try to exchange. But
if it was up to me, I'd chuck the DVD_ROM and put the 400GB hard drive
and stick a Post-It note on the PC to not buy any PATA drives and but
only SATA next time. SATA is likely to replace PATA in the future
with smaller cable size, jumperless setup, and higher transfer rate
that parallel version cannot hold.
If you absolutely need to keep the DVD-ROM and burner, and you have a
spare PCI slot, you could pick up an IDE card for about $20 or so, it
should have 2 PATA ports for you to play with.
--
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too late. - by anonymous Mother in Austin, TX
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