Install 2nd hard drive on Pri IDE cable

[Jim C]

The following drives are listed in my bios settings

Primay IDE cable ...master (EXISTING HARD DRIVE),,,slave (zip drive)
Sec IDE cable....master (DVDRW drive),,, slave (cdrw drive )

I am going to install a new hard drive in place of the zip drive on my
Primay cable as a slave, for back up purposes, op system, photos, documents,
etc.

Can I replace the CDRW drive with the zip drive I removed from the primary
cable aand keep it as a slave on the secondary cable?

Thanks

 

[John E. Carty]

Yes

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

Yes, just make sure you set the jumpers properly

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The following drives are listed in my bios settings

Primay IDE cable ...master (EXISTING HARD DRIVE),,,slave (zip drive)
Sec IDE cable....master (DVDRW drive),,, slave (cdrw drive )

I am going to install a new hard drive in place of the zip drive on my
Primay cable as a slave, for back up purposes, op system, photos, documents,
etc.

Can I replace the CDRW drive with the zip drive I removed from the primary
cable aand keep it as a slave on the secondary cable?

Yes. Why do you want a zip drive these days, though? 100mb is tiny!

 

[jecarty]

Yes. Why do you want a zip drive these days, though? 100mb is tiny!

My zip drive holds 750MB's

 

[Jonny]

The following drives are listed in my bios settings

Primay IDE cable ...master (EXISTING HARD DRIVE),,,slave (zip drive)
Sec IDE cable....master (DVDRW drive),,, slave (cdrw drive )

I am going to install a new hard drive in place of the zip drive on my
Primay cable as a slave, for back up purposes, op system, photos,
documents, etc.

Can I replace the CDRW drive with the zip drive I removed from the primary
cable aand keep it as a slave on the secondary cable?

Thanks

Have a similar setup using an older LS120 floppy drive. It has to be master
to work correctly. The DVD-RW didn't mind being slave despite the TDK
directions for it to be master.