If I add two drives to my system, and I am converting the SATA connector to IDE, then how do I connect the two ? There will be one IDE connector on the backside of the adaptor, the ribbon cable will have a grey, blue and black connector. Do I connect the two drives (both are not intended to be bootable) to the black and blue ? Is the adaptor supposed to handle multiple drives ?
2006-12-28 12:33:20 · 5 answers · asked by charlie k 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
My system is made by SONY and they chose to have SATA connectors because they are smaller cables and faster. But I had the opportunity to buy some large ATA/IDE Maxtor drives for a really low price. So now I'm learning that there's an adaptor that will allow me to connect them
(SEWELLDIRECT.COM Serial ATA to IDE Converter). But what I don't know is how more than one drive will connect. Do I need to buy an adaptor for each drive or can I put both on the IDE ribbon cable (perhaps black and blue connectors) then connect the grey to the adaptor.
2006-12-28 12:43:07 · update #1
There is already a SATA drive on the system as a system disk. I'm just planning to add data storage.
2006-12-28 13:11:51 · update #2
You will need a converter for each drive, as they support only one drive each. Plus you need to make sure your system has at least two available floppy drive power connectors as that is what will provide power for each drive. Example, SATA cable is plugged into the converter, the floppy drive power cable plugs into the converter which in turn is plugged into the hard drive. Diagram is below. You would have been better served just staying with SATA drives, as they are no different in price now then PATA drives.
2006-12-28 12:54:14 · answer #1 · answered by villanim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your moving over to IDE drives then you will need to have them on the fist plug on the mother board marked IDE1 now the drive that your going to put the top connector (blue) into should be set as master
look at the back edge of the hard drive near the power/IDE cable
you will see a small jumper with 6 or 8 pins look which pins you jump to make it the Master.and the second hard drive needs to be set at Slave,
The cd rom needs to be coupled to the secondary IDE2 slot and the CD Rom set as Master,
are you going to boot from a Sata hard drive?
2006-12-28 12:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 18:01:06 · answer #3 · answered by hannigan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why dont you just get IDE drives?
2006-12-28 12:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by jt114881 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i run two adapters, they are running in a raid
2006-12-28 13:13:08 · answer #5 · answered by lowrider6204 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋