Adding a third harddive.

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Adding a third harddive.

Postby Sporkmaster » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:40 pm

I was wondering is there anything more that I need to do to add a third hard drive (make a second slaved) then getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three. The model that I am looking at is the same as the other two that I currently have.
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Postby Kalium » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:44 pm

Well, if you're running on normal ATA, then I believe you're limited to two drives per cable, for a total of four ATA devices.
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Postby Sporkmaster » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:22 pm

So unless I have another slot open in my motherboard I cannot have more then two?
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Postby Kalium » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:28 pm

Sporkmaster wrote:So unless I have another slot open in my motherboard I cannot have more then two?

Up to four ATA devices with the standard two ATA motherboard ports. So, if you have two CD drives, you're limited to two HDs.
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Postby Scintilla » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:36 pm

In order to get around this same issue, I bought myself a SATA/RAID PCI controller card, into which my Seagate 160GB SATA Barracuda could then plug.

It's slower than a hard drive controller straight on the motherboard, but it works (in fact, that drive is currently faster than both of the ATA drives I <i>do</i> have plugged into my motherboard).
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Postby Sporkmaster » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:37 pm

I have only one Cd drive, but I thought that it the second one was only limited to Cd drives.
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Postby Kalium » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:38 pm

Sporkmaster wrote:I have only one Cd drive, but I thought that it the second one was only limited to Cd drives.

ATA devices are ATA devices, HD or CD drive matters not.
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Postby Sporkmaster » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:43 pm

So I guess that solves that.
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Postby Digitalex » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:14 pm

Sporkmaster wrote:So I guess that solves that.



It does but there are also other considerations.

From your setup, I've read that you should make the the 3rd drive the master and the CD/DVD drive the slave on the second IDE channel.
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Re: Adding a third harddive.

Postby Eek-1 » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:22 am

Sporkmaster wrote:..getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three.
Is there really a 40/80-pin 4-connector IDE? I'm asking because sometime ago when I was at a computer shop a guy came in and asked for a 4-connector cable (of course the shop didn't have it).
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Re: Adding a third harddive.

Postby Kalium » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:03 pm

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Sporkmaster wrote:..getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three.
Is there really a 40/80-pin 4-connector IDE? I'm asking because sometime ago when I was at a computer shop a guy came in and asked for a 4-connector cable (of course the shop didn't have it).

I don't think there is. There's master and slave, no third setting for one IDE chain.
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Re: Adding a third harddive.

Postby Digitalex » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:05 pm

Kalium wrote:
Eek-1 wrote:
Sporkmaster wrote:..getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three.
Is there really a 40/80-pin 4-connector IDE? I'm asking because sometime ago when I was at a computer shop a guy came in and asked for a 4-connector cable (of course the shop didn't have it).

I don't think there is. There's master and slave, no third setting for one IDE chain.


There is also a cable select option but I suspect it determines who the master and slave will be. I've never seen an ide cable for a third device as well.
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Re: Adding a third harddive.

Postby Kalium » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:12 pm

Digitalex wrote:
Kalium wrote:
Eek-1 wrote:
Sporkmaster wrote:..getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three.
Is there really a 40/80-pin 4-connector IDE? I'm asking because sometime ago when I was at a computer shop a guy came in and asked for a 4-connector cable (of course the shop didn't have it).

I don't think there is. There's master and slave, no third setting for one IDE chain.


There is also a cable select option but I suspect it determines who the master and slave will be. I've never seen an ide cable for a third device as well.

Cable select just means that master/slave status depends on which plug on the cable you use, the master/slave status is still there.
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Re: Adding a third harddive.

Postby Reaven » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:00 am

Sporkmaster wrote:I was wondering is there anything more that I need to do to add a third hard drive (make a second slaved) then getting a ribbon that has four plugs rather then three. The model that I am looking at is the same as the other two that I currently have.


yeah you can if you want there is a system that can hook up +/- 6 harddrives to your PC
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