I bought a new PC and realized it has an ATA Drive.. well i need to put a Slave in it and All i have is IDE drives.. soo When attempting to do so, Its Now only wanting to read my IDE as Master and Not Reading the ATA present what so ever.. How can i add an IDE drive for my Slave while keeping the ATA as "Master"?? thx
2007-05-29 15:22:05 · 1 answers · asked by draco611 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
ATA and IDE are practically the same thing, so I'm assuming you meant SATA. In that case, the IDE becomes the master, because SATA does not use master/slave terminology. This isn't a problem. Even in a normal case with one hard drive, the SATA is the main drive, even though then there are ATA devices like CD drives that become the master.
As for why it isn't reading the SATA at all, I don't really know. Sorry.
2007-05-29 15:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by Goldom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋