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| 436263 | 2006-03-07 06:34:00 | Hi All I have an aging FIC AN17 motherboard which is running a 160GB IDE hard drive on the primary IDE channel and a DVD-Rom drive and a DVD Writer on the secondary IDE channel -- planning to use it as my new Jukebox PC (original Mo/bo in PC has failed). Running Win XP Pro (SP2). Only got the 160GB drive to work as the boot drive by selecting Cable Select on the pin settings -- BIOS wouldn't recognise the drive on primary IDE channel if it was set to 'master' (32GB problem on older motherboards I presume). Went to motherboard manufacturer's site and there was no BIOS update to accept larger drive sizes (i.e. +32GB OR +137GB) Looking at installing about another 400GB capacity to store all my music, MPEG & Digi photo files and was unsure whether to: 1: Buy a 400GB IDE hard drive and run it as the slave on the primary IDE channel or .. 2: Buy an SCSI PCI card and intsall 1-2 SATA drives on that. Am worried that my BIOS/Motherboard will refuse to recognise the 400GB IDE drive if it is installed as the slave drive (presumably can't have 2 IDE hard drives set as 'cable select' on the same channel I presume??). Will I take a significant performance hit if I go for option 2 as compared to option 1? Opinions/advice most welcome. Thanks in advance ... |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 436264 | 2006-03-07 07:02:00 | Bump ... :rolleyes: |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 436265 | 2006-03-07 07:13:00 | Okay, just to make sure i got this you have 2 optical drives on IDE 1 1 160gb cable select boot drive on IDE 0 I would for a start check the IDE cable you are using, 80 pin not the older DMA33 cable 64? pin. I dont thinks its got anything to do with the BIOS if it read the drive correctly (ie: size) when on cable select. As for adding more HDD, either of the 2 listed below seems fine to me, the SCSI controller will need SCSI drives thru. You could install a SATA controller for the SATA drives, however I dont see the need UNLESS you cant find a big enough IDE drive. You have to remember that any extented PCI card is going to be limited by the PCI bus as opposed to an on-board SATA controller (if AMD system, you dont say, i cant be bothered looking up the board). Option 1 therefore the cheaper option. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 436266 | 2006-03-07 07:23:00 | It is an AMD system So you can run 2 IDE-based hard drives both on 'cable select'? If so then yes a large-capacity IDE drive would seem to be the best way to go. |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 436267 | 2006-03-07 08:22:00 | Bump (again) .... :help: |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 436268 | 2006-03-07 09:59:00 | So you can run 2 IDE-based hard drives both on 'cable select'? I don't see why not, but I doubt that your motherboard will recognise a 400 gig drive. I've never heard of a drive only working on cable select before. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 436269 | 2006-03-07 23:08:00 | If it recognises 160Gb, then 400Gb will be no problem. The old 137Gb was the shut off point before sp1 XP. No problems with 2 drives on 1 IDE channel, thats why it has master and slave! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 436270 | 2006-03-08 08:24:00 | Yeah I know there's no problems with having 2 drives oon an IDE channel -- but can they both be set to 'cable select' is my concern/question. | Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 436271 | 2006-03-08 08:48:00 | IDE hdds dont always work if u use cable select. It's better if u jumper them as master or slave. Try and enter the heads/cylinders info etc in manually, in the BIOS for the hdd/s. The info you need is on the sticker, on top of the hdd's. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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