Slaving Ultra ATA HDD question

fred_easey · 30 Jan 2006 at 16:31

Hi,

I want to add a new Ultra ATA HDD to my Shuttle SN45G (in place of the FDD).

Question is -

Do I get a new IDE cable with two connectors, plug that in to IDE1 and slave the new HDD to the old HDD (which has the OS and apps on) ...

...or do I plug it in to the same cable as the Optical drive (currently IDE2) and slave it to the optical drive?

...or a 3rd option which is better than the above?

Also, If I do option 1, will this type of IDE cable do a job for me:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_IDE_Cables_151.html

Any help much appreciated,

Cheers,

Fred

fred_easey · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:39

ok, so in summary, do I slave the optical drive to the 2nd HDD on IDE 2, or keep optical on it's own on IDE2 and slave HDD2 to HDD1 on IDE1?

fred_easey · 2 Feb 2006 at 08:24

Ok, the $64K dollar question is, is the generic 2 device ATA cable that comes with the SN45G 33-way or 66-way? Is there an easy wasy of testing this? (should I just look on the Shuttle website?)

fred_easey · 3 Feb 2006 at 09:33

Pretty sure mine is 80 way. Ok, IDE2 master it is then.

Thanks for all the advice everyone.