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Dell 8300 - Add Second Harddrive
I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple
of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. Charlie ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:15:44 GMT, Charliec wrote:
I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. Charlie ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email That's strange, my 8300 hard drive cable has an extra plug for 2nd drive (and extra drive rails clipped inside for mounting drives). I used that to check if another drive was okay after a homebuilt PC blew a power supply (drive worked). If cable plugs are marked 1 and 2, drives should be jumpered cable select rather than master/slave. I imagine if you have CD or DVD, that might have an extra plug that would work. -- David Efflandt - All spam ignored http://www.de-srv.com/ |
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"Charliec" wrote in message ... I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. Charlie depends on what drive it is - if it's IDE then the ribbon connector should have another plug half way down. if it's Serial ATA then you need another serial ata cable to plug into the motherboard- right next to where the first plugs in. note that even if you have serial ATA you can buy an IDE ribbon cable to connect to the motherboards IDE connector - although it won't be as fast probably as a SATA drive. -- Gareth. Quote of the day.... Nostradamus? - sounds like a rock group to me! |
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Charliec wrote:
I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems.../sm/drives.htm |
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What ? Shouldn't you be able to have up to four IDE devices AND up to two
SATA devices ? Assuming enough power & places to mount them. I've added a SATA hard drive to my 8300 so it now has both the original IDE hard drive AND the SATA hard drive along with two DVD drives. I haven't gotten around to reloading windoze on it yet and making it the boot drive, but everything works fine. Ken In article Charliec writes:From: Charliec Subject: Dell 8300 - Add Second Harddrive Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:37:24 GMT Ok, folks, I saw this in the document referenced below: "NOTE: Install only IDE hard drives or serial ATA hard drives in your computer. You cannot install both types of drives." I must have missed that statement in the manual. I was attempting to install an IDE along side an ATA and apparently that cannot be done. Sorry for running you all around in circles. I'll try reading more carefully next time! Charlie Gus wrote: Charliec wrote: I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems.../sm/drives.htm ************************************************* ***** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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Have you considered the advantages to adding an external drive?? Secure
backup, portability, etc.? "Charliec" wrote in message ... I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. Charlie ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the long note, but I'm still having a heck
of a time getting the 2nd drive added. The drive I'm trying to add is a 40GB WDC drive I had in my old system. It has, I guess what you call an 80 pin cable (the cable connector has 39 pins with one blank pin slot in the middle. I'm using the same cable that I had in my old system (80 pin cable). Here's the situation on the new system. It had 3 IDE drive connectors listed in the BIOS as follows: SATA Primary Drive - Harddrive attached (a 34/78 pin connector with the second pin from the right blank) SATA Secondary Drive - OFF Primary Master Drive - OFF (has a 40 pin connector with one blank pin slot in the middle) Primary Slave Drive - OFF Secondary Master Drive - CD-ROM attached Secondary Slave Drive - CD-ROM attached I attached the 2nd harddrive to the Primary Master Drive with the 40 pin cable. I have the drive set to Cable Select. I attached power to the drive. On bootup, I go into the BIOS and switch the Primary Master Drive from "OFF" to "AUTO" assuming it would detect the drive. It does not and I get "Unknown device" listed in the BIOS. So, can any outline what I am doing wrong here. I cannot attach th drive as the SATA Secondary Drive as it requires the 40/80 pin connector vs. the 34/78 pin connector on the 1st drive. Thanks for any tips/suggestions (and again, sorry for the long note) Charlie "the dog from that film you saw" wrote: note that even if you have serial ATA you can buy an IDE ribbon cable to connect to the motherboards IDE connector - although it won't be as fast probably as a SATA drive. ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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Good idea, I'm going to look into that.
Charlie "Ray" wrote: Have you considered the advantages to adding an external drive?? Secure backup, portability, etc.? ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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Ok, folks,
I saw this in the document referenced below: "NOTE: Install only IDE hard drives or serial ATA hard drives in your computer. You cannot install both types of drives." I must have missed that statement in the manual. I was attempting to install an IDE along side an ATA and apparently that cannot be done. Sorry for running you all around in circles. I'll try reading more carefully next time! Charlie Gus wrote: Charliec wrote: I'm trying to add a second harddrive to my new Dell 8300 and have a couple of quick questions. Does the second drive have to be on the same cable as the current Primary drive? The current cable in the 8300 is a single drive cable. If I need a dual drive cable, are they standard and can you get it at the local computer. Thanks for any insights. http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems.../sm/drives.htm ************************************************** **** Charliec NOTE: Remove "XXX" to respond via Email |
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"Charliec" wrote in message ... Ok, folks, I saw this in the document referenced below: "NOTE: Install only IDE hard drives or serial ATA hard drives in your computer. You cannot install both types of drives." I must have missed that statement in the manual. I was attempting to install an IDE along side an ATA and apparently that cannot be done. Sorry for running you all around in circles. I'll try reading more carefully next time! Charlie I have to disagree on this, In My 8300 I purchased in Dec 2003 I have 1 SATA 120mb drive and have added an additional 120MB ide and 60 mb ide drive to the system and it works perfectly. Rod |
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