It's a new Seagate Ext H/D with 300 gigs available. If I divide it into 2 partions, can I use one for backup's and the other as a "slave"?
Or does the slave need to be connected directly to the motherboard?
Appreciate your help and advise... thanks.
2006-12-18 01:07:16 · 7 answers · asked by bonobo77 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
No.
Irrelevant of any partition scheme any 2 hard drives you wish to use under a " master / slave " configuration must BOTH be connected directly to the mainboard's IDE or SATA channels.
All external devices in modern PCs are connected via firewire or USB .... the data is transferred via an entirely separate bus line.
For all intents and purposes there really isn't any difference (besides performance) that would justify needing to configure an external device as a slave to the primary hard drive. There are no logical advantages to doing this.
regards,
Philip T
2006-12-18 02:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Master/Slave configs are Hardware. You can slave the any extra HDD. It is kinda the standard setting. They are both Logical Drives, but with the correct OS, ehem Linux, you can make any Partition anywhere you want and set as Primary,Secondary, Logical,Data or whatever Microsoft wants you to call em.
2006-12-18 01:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by Yawn Gnome 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No It can not it would have to be a second hard drive to become a slave. We partition it like rooms in a house . You can not make a brd room another house within the house even though most teenagers think they can, eat, drink, sleep and live in their bedroom.
2006-12-18 01:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Master/Slave is just a *hardware* configuration term.
It has nothing to do with logical units like partitions.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "slave". If you mean
that you can use one partition for backups and the "slave"
one for normal use. Yes you can. You can use it for mostly
anything.
2006-12-18 01:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by Alex S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure can. look on the back of the drive there is a jumper between two brass pegs look on the drive for jumper settings and reposition the peg for the slave that's it
2006-12-18 01:13:46 · answer #5 · answered by GENE M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite you may...there are kind of softwares available that you may chop up up difficult force partition. i recommend you employ "Magic Partition" is elementary to apply and it get the pastime performed....good success =]
2016-11-30 22:09:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can make anything your slave if you whip it hard enough.
2006-12-18 01:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by dogpoop 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋