| From: | Daedalus |
| Date: | 20 Apr 2001 at 13:07:00 |
| Subject: | Re: harddrive |
Hi All,
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me, my setup is an A1200, OS 3.0, I
> > have two CDROM`s on one IDE cable coming from an eyetech buffered IDE
> > interface, I also have a 120mb conner 2.5 harddrive attached as well. My
> > problem is that I have just bought myself a lovley big 10GB
> > Western Digital 3.5 IDE harddrive I have attached it with another IDE cable
> > to the spare IDE socket on the eyetech adapter. I`v used HDtoolbox and
>
> cant do this. the reason? you have used both IDE channels already
>
> 1 channel has the 2.5" drive on, t'other channel has your two CDROM
> drives on.
>
> you have two options.
>
> 1) ditch the small/slow/old 2.5" drive
> (simply take off the CDROMs, put the 3.5" drive onto that channel,
> format, install, copy across your system and then remove the 2.5",
> replacing with the 3.5" and put the CDROMs back
>
> 2) get a 3.5"->2.5" adapter and try to put both drives onto the one
> channel (connector near the CDROM connector). this *may* work but very
> doubtful as 2.5" devices arent designed to be in a master/slave situation
True, most won't, though I did have a 1.4GB Hitachi Drive that worked fine
as a master. The 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor cable makes no difference either
way, because on the buffered interface both primary IDE ports are just
wired in parallel, thus acting like a 2.5 to 3.5 converter itself.
Rob
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