adding parallel IDE slave with SATA primary

[Dan O]

Hello,

I recently purchased a new Compaq SR1616NX. It has a Serial ATA HD in it.
I would like to put my old parallel EIDE drive in as a second HD to recover
some needed files then wipe the 2nd drive clean to use as a back-up device.
The Compaq has open bays and the MB has 2 IDE connectors. IDE2 has the
optical drive and IDE1 is vacant.

I am thinking that I can set the parallel drive to slave with jumpers,
connect it to IDE1, verify that the SATA is the boot drive in the BIOS and
be good to go.

Will this work?
Which connector on the ribbon cable should I use.
Any other pitfalls I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Mike Walsh]

It should work as slave, but it is common practice to make a drive master if it is the only device on the port. It doesn't matter which connector you use.

 

[kony]

Hello,

I recently purchased a new Compaq SR1616NX. It has a Serial ATA HD in it.
I would like to put my old parallel EIDE drive in as a second HD to recover
some needed files then wipe the 2nd drive clean to use as a back-up device.
The Compaq has open bays and the MB has 2 IDE connectors. IDE2 has the
optical drive and IDE1 is vacant.

I am thinking that I can set the parallel drive to slave with jumpers,
connect it to IDE1, verify that the SATA is the boot drive in the BIOS and
be good to go.

Will this work?
Which connector on the ribbon cable should I use.
Any other pitfalls I should be aware of?

yes it will work but you're better off using a 2nd IDE
cable, leaving the optical alone and using the old HDD as
primary master. If you were going to pull the drive back
out of the box then I'd suggest just temporarily unplugging
the optical drive cable, plugging it into the old HDD only
long enough to copy off the data.

It will work attached to same cable as the optical though,
and won't make a lot of difference. Sometimes the cable
connector spacing is limiting though.

In that situation I"d leave the optical as master, jumper
old HDD as slave and put it on the middle of the cable. If
your motherboard IDE connector is towards the top of the
board it might require the opposite (or a longer cable), to
jumper optical as slave and old HDD as master. Actually,
I'd just jumper both to cable select and leave them like
that unless that doesnt' work.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I recently purchased a new Compaq SR1616NX. It has a Serial
ATA HD in it. I would like to put my old parallel EIDE drive in as
a second HD to recover some needed files then wipe the 2nd
drive clean to use as a back-up device. The Compaq has open
bays and the MB has 2 IDE connectors. IDE2 has the optical
drive and IDE1 is vacant.

I am thinking that I can set the parallel drive to slave with jumpers,
connect it to IDE1, verify that the SATA is the boot drive in the
BIOS and be good to go.

Will this work?
Which connector on the ribbon cable should I use.
Any other pitfalls I should be aware of?

No problem. The easiest thing to do, if you have another IDE
cable, would be to connect the PATA drive to what you call
"IDE1". Otherwise, if you put the PATA drive on the same cable
with the optical drive, all that is necessary is that they not be
jumpered the same. That is, they can be Master/Slave or Slave/
Master - it doesn't matter. If you set them both to Cable Select,
you can even ignore jumper settings for Master/Slave.

*TimDaniels*

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

Hello,

I recently purchased a new Compaq SR1616NX. It has a Serial ATA HD in it.
I would like to put my old parallel EIDE drive in as a second HD to
recover some needed files then wipe the 2nd drive clean to use as a
back-up device.
The Compaq has open bays and the MB has 2 IDE connectors. IDE2 has the
optical drive and IDE1 is vacant.

I am thinking that I can set the parallel drive to slave with jumpers,
connect it to IDE1, verify that the SATA is the boot drive in the BIOS and
be good to go.

Will this work?
Which connector on the ribbon cable should I use.
Any other pitfalls I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Dan

You might need to go into your BIOS and make sure your SATA drive is the
only hard drive in list of drives it can boot off of or your IDE might boot
up as the primary. All depends on the motherboard and the boot order the
drives are set in the BIOS.

 

[Alceryes]

I am thinking that I can set the parallel drive to slave with jumpers,

connect it to IDE1, verify that the SATA is the boot drive in the BIOS and
be good to go.

Why jumper it as slave? It's going to be the only device on that chain so it
should be set to master (or cable select) and placed at the end of the
cable. You are correct about the BIOS adjustment though. Even new MB's will
usually try to boot off a master HD on the IDE channel although it's been
booting off a SATA from the factory.
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