I have a new HD that will be my secondary HD (won't have my OS on it). Before I put the new drive in I have: Primary Master HD Secondary Master DVD RW Secondary Slave DVD ROM How should I arrange this setup to put my new HD in? Can I put it on master as a slave. I've heard it's not great to put 2 HDs on the same IDE channel. Thanks.
It's not great to put two HDDs on the same IDE channel, especially if you're going to be writing to both simultaneously, or copying files from one to the other. It will be much slower than it could be. You could either add an inexpensive IDE controller to your system, or you could just use it as a slave on your existing channel.
i'm confused, do you mean put it on Primary as a slave...if so then you could but like Anti-Trend said it would be extremely slow, if it was me, i would buy a controller card and do it that way.
Do these sort of things still exist? I thought they died with ISA slots. I'm actually trying to build a data server myself but the four-IDE limit is a bit annoying so I'd be interested in something like this. Unfortunately the only comparable thing I could find was PCI SATA controllers, not IDE.
It still isn't very expensive. I have seen IDE controllers around but I don't remember where. Why not use SATA, it is nearly the same price now, if not the same.
Because practically all my hardware (and believe me, it's a LOT) is old stuff salvaged from the scrap heap. I don't think I've ever seen a SATA drive. All I need is to have a FTP/NFS server for a home network with the OS loaded on a 2GB hard-drive and use a 40GB and a 20GB hard-drive for the FTP/NFS services. As the motherboard is a socket 7 with a 200MHz CPU I think SATA is out of the question!
