IDE port for 3 devices
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? 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. 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. 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 I know this cause so many problem, I would have bought a SATA drive instead. really ****ed off |
IDE port for 3 devices
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IDE port for 3 devices
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IDE port for 3 devices
1. can I use an IDE hard drive together with a SATA hard drive all togther? Yes, you can get IDE to SATA converters and put it on a SATA port. Thanks for the suggestion. where can I get this converters? |
IDE port for 3 devices
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1. can I use an IDE hard drive together with a SATA hard drive all togther? Yes, you can get IDE to SATA converters and put it on a SATA port. Thanks for the suggestion. where can I get this converters? A short Google search using "ide sata adaptor" minus the quotes will give you more than you care to read about. Here are a couple of links, not that I have purchased anything from them. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...oogle&ct=title http://www.coolerexpress.com/iwparatatose.html http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIL3611&cat=CBL Another thought would be to purchase one of those external USB\IDE cases and put the drive in that. Last but not least would be a IDE interface card that would plug into an empty slot (if any) and would drive one or two IDE devices. They can be had for about the same price as the IDE/SATA adaptors. |
IDE port for 3 devices
wrote: 1. can I use an IDE hard drive together with a SATA hard drive all togther? Yes, you can get IDE to SATA converters and put it on a SATA port. Thanks for the suggestion. where can I get this converters? If you have any free PCI slots, an IDE controllor would be better. http://www.promise.com/product/produ...roduct_i d=87 An External USB enclosure would also work just fine, as metioned. A SATA to IDE converter is a hit and miss kind of a deal. Since the SATA spec does not require implementation of certian Legacy IDE functions. You should be able to pick up the IDE controller or usb enclosure locally. |
IDE port for 3 devices
wrote in message oups.com... 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: Best solution, return the 400gig drive and get the SATA version. (assuming you have a free SATA port) Remember that with SATA it's only one drive per port. |
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