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Hi i have a question about HDD.. currently I have 3 HDD (2 of them are quantum and another one is seagate)...
My question is :
My motherboard is compatible for only 2 HDD (as far as I know), so can i make it for 3 HDD ?? cause i want to use all of them in same time..
thanks
You should be abble to support it. You can set it up like this:
Primary IDE=HDD1 Master, CDROM Slave
Secondary IDE=HDD2 Master, HDD3 Slave or set both to Cable Select.
Some older mother boards will only support certain size drives but not usualy the number of drives as long as you have the available IDE channels. Check with the maker of your board for this info.
What do you mean incompatible?
On your first cable have a: Master, Slave setup
Second cable have a: CD-Rom (master, or slave), Hard Drive (master, or slave)
Crap, P2P. You took the words right outta my fingers. :)
And remember to check that the bios have set up the drives correct. If not you have to do it manually. Check the manual over the mainboard if you have one.. If not try to find the manual on the web, use a good search engine or visit the manufactors homepage. A last good advice RTFM (Read The "Fine" Manuals) its the best helper you can have :).Quote:
Originally posted here by {P²P}Apocalypse
You should be abble to support it. You can set it up like this:
Primary IDE=HDD1 Master, CDROM Slave
Secondary IDE=HDD2 Master, HDD3 Slave or set both to Cable Select.
Some older mother boards will only support certain size drives but not usualy the number of drives as long as you have the available IDE channels. Check with the maker of your board for this info.
If you have a really old mother board that only supports the old IDE standard as opposed to EIDE (which supports 4 devices, and has been standard for some years now) then you are correct about it only being able to support 2 devices.
It won't do any harm to try plugging in the other HDD, and seeing if your BIOS reports any slave devices.
The advice about master/slave setup should work - cable select can give problems on some systems. To set a drive to master or slave you will normally find a small plug/DIP switch on the drive itself which you use to tell it which mode you want it to run in.
If you have problems with the size of the drive, because you have an old BIOS, then go to a manafacturers website (Quantum, Seagate or anyone else!), and download the tool to fix this. It installs DDO software on your HDD, which circumvents the BIOS problem.
the problem is, is there any cable that support 3 or more HDD, because my cable (for HDD) only have 2 plug to HDD
You have two IDE ports on your board so you must have two cables so the one of the will be for one(primary HDD) and (slave HDD) the other CD and the third HDD(secondary slave)
im doing teh same thing
hdd1 -> hdd2
cdrom -> hdd3
too bad windows doesnt like them all and wont shut down properly
Look on the motherboard next to where the cable is connected.Quote:
Originally posted here by wh_th_world
the problem is, is there any cable that support 3 or more HDD, because my cable (for HDD) only have 2 plug to HDD
Is there a place to connect a second cable?
If your board is really old, you may not have two
ide interfaces on the board.
If this is the case, you'd have to get
an ide interface card (AKA controller),
but most recent boards have places
for two cables.
Only two devices can be accomodated
on each interface. That's why they only
put two plugs on the cable.
I have an old 486 that does not have the
IDE interfaces on the motherboard.
It has two IDE cards. Man that was fun to
figure out and set up.
Today, with a relatively new motherboard
and BIOS, you just plug everything in, set all
device jumpers to "cable select" (the default)
and, provided that your cables are "cable select
compatible", the BIOS will configure everything
when you turn on the power.
My COMPAQ DESKPRO works like that.
"Wham bam, thank you Ma'am"
:cool:
This probably isn't a Windows problem, as I have an identical setup on a Windows98 system at home (except mine is hdd3 -> cdrom). And the hdd3 is also of 1995 vintage - don't use it to keep anything important on - just additional backups of data.Quote:
Originally posted here by lench
im doing teh same thing
hdd1 -> hdd2
cdrom -> hdd3
too bad windows doesnt like them all and wont shut down properly
yeah thats what i use it for anyway
You should buy a Hard Drive Controler at Best Buy or Staples..... An HDD Controller is like a 3rd IDE port plugged right into PCI :)
You can hook up a hdd instead of a cdrom notice there are 2 ide cabels comming from your motherbord?they are the same you can hookup cdrom drives,writers,dvd's,hdd everything you want to
Many computers come with a cable to only attach 1 drive, but like acid said, you can buy a "Hard Drive Controler" cable at most computing stores.
The machines that they are talking about that only support IDE, and 2 HD's are at least 15 years old now, so unles you are trying to upgrade an original 386 (or older), That shouldn't be the case.
I did not mean a hard drive cable, I meant a seperate Hard Drive Controller that plugs into your PCI port, Its acts like another IDE bus :D
http://www.techdepot.com/product.asp...730&affid=2165
Make sure that you put the hard drive that you plan on using the lest on the Hard Drive Controller (sometimes called an i/o card) because you can take a big performance hit depending on the card and the hard drive.
Guys, keep in mind that on some boards they have an onboard IDE RAID controller with extra connections, thus giving you the possibility of having 8 IDE devices (I have 5 @home: 3 HDDs, DVD, CD-RW).
wont having a controller card cause a conflict in the hardware?
it won't cause a conflict because the hdd will be recognized as a pci device not an ide.