Hard Drive Question

Disaster1Disaster1
edited August 2004 in Hardware
This may be a stupid question, but how do I know if my Comp will work with a second hard drive on Cable Select? I am installing a second one and don't know if i should make it a slave or cable select. Here are my stats

80GB Western Digital HD
ABIT NF7-S AMD Athlon 2700+

I am adding another 160 GB HD, also does the NF7-S configure raid automatically? I have never had 2 HD so I don't know what to do.

Comments

  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    primary drive as master, secondary as slave. There shouldn't be anything more than that.
    Are you running a raid array?
  • Disaster1Disaster1
    edited August 2004
    No, I don't know how to set up RAID, I THINK the NF7-S has a integrated RAID controller, but I have no idea how to set it up. I would like to if I could...
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited August 2004
    Are those drives IDE (PATA) or SATA? I'm assuming they're IDE as most SATA drives, with the exception of Western Digital, don't need jumper configuration.

    As for RAID, I'm assuming the RAID controller uses the SATA ports, so you'd need two x identical SATA drives to set up a RAID 0 array. The motherboard manual should give you a good indication of how to set it up or if that's a bit baffling, ask questions here, loads of knowledgable people here to help you.

    And yes, what DanG said is good and proper, 2nd hard disk as slave, when sharing same cable as a master device.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    You could also use SATA to IDE converters.
  • lsevaldlsevald Norway Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    RAID works best with identical drives. You can run one Master and one Slave on the same cable, or Cable Select on both (the drive on the middle connector then becomes slave). It's probably best if you run each on a separate cable/IDE channel as Masters. If you got an optical drive run one HDD and one CDROM on the second channel (marked IDE2 on mobo).

    NF7-S supports RAID on the SATA controller.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited August 2004
    If you use an IDE device on one of those converters just remember that only 1 device per converter/SATA port and each drive should be configured as Master not Cable Select on the jumpers.
  • Disaster1Disaster1
    edited August 2004
    Well the drives are both Western Digital IDE. They aren't the same though. 1 is 80GB one is 160GB. I was going to use the 80GB for applications and the 160 for games etc...Seems like RAID isn't an option because they aren't identical. The primary (80GB) is set up as simply cable select right now, so just so I am understanding correctly I need to change the jumpers on the 80GB to the master setting and the 160GB to slave and that should be fine correct, OR do I leave the 80GB on cable select and put the 160BG jumpers on slave?
  • lsevaldlsevald Norway Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    If you leave the 80GB at cable select, you have to use cable select on the 160GB disk too (if you connect both to the same cable). As the name implies...the position of the drive on the cable determines if the drive will become slave or master (both drives must be configured for cable select). A drive on the middle connector becomes slave and the drive on the last connector becomes master. You probably want to keep the 80GB drive as master since it contains all your existing data, thus if you are going the "cable select route", your new drive has to use the middle connector on the IDE cable. Position on the cable doesn't matter if you change your existing drive to Master and install the new one as Slave.
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