SATA Help, Please
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Posted by Jack Gillis on July 18, 2005, 7:06 am
Please log in for more thread options I have two, small by today's standards, IDE drives connected to my IDE channel 1 as master and slave. The master has two partitions. C has Windows XP and applications and D is used for Data. The slave is for backups and archives. I am running out of space on the slave and want to replace it with a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so. BTW, Channel 2 has a DVD reader and a CD Burner. Since SATA seems the wave of the near future the replacement will probably be a SATA. Now my questions. 1. Will I need a separate controller card for the SATA? 2. How do I connect the power to the SATA since, as I understand it, the power connection is not the usual Molex type connector found comming from the power supply? Thank you very much. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Semi Head on July 18, 2005, 6:34 am
Please log in for more thread options >on the slave and want to replace it with
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>a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so. > >1. Will I need a separate controller card
>for the SATA? > You'll need a motherboard that supports SATA otherwise stick with the IDE . Buy a Bigger one. S_H | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jack Gillis on July 18, 2005, 8:41 am
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>From: XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com (Jack Gillis)
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> >I have two, small by today's standards, >IDE drives connected to my IDE channel 1> as master and slave. > >on the slave and want to replace it with
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>a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so. > >1. Will I need a separate controller card
>for the SATA? > You'll need a motherboard that supports SATA otherwise stick with the IDE . Buy a Bigger one. S_H Thank you. A new MB is not in the cards for a while so I will go a looking for a bigger IDE and while I am at it will replace the ribbons with rounded IDE cables. Have been thinking of that for while anyway. Thanks again. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by BruceM on July 18, 2005, 11:10 pm
Please log in for more thread options Just get a SATA pci card to slip into the computer.
Works like a charm & then you're speced up ready for when you do update your board one day. All you need to do is grab yourself a SATA data cable & a SATA power adapter. About $4 ea on Ebay. >
>>From: XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com (Jack Gillis)
> > > >I have two, small by today's standards, > >IDE drives connected to my IDE channel > 1> as master and slave. > > > ...
> >on the slave and want to replace it with
> >a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so. > > > ...
> >1. Will I need a separate controller card
> >for the SATA? > > >
> > You'll need a motherboard that supports SATA otherwise stick with the > IDE . Buy a Bigger one. > > S_H > > Thank you. A new MB is not in the cards for a while so I will go a > looking for a bigger IDE and while I am at it will replace the ribbons > with rounded IDE cables. Have been thinking of that for while anyway. > > Thanks again. > > > > | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DaveW on July 18, 2005, 5:02 pm
Please log in for more thread options Since your older computer was not originally designed to use SATA, I think
you'll have fewer overall problems if you buy another IDE harddrive. SATA is NOT a simple install. -- DaveW > Please tolerate my ignorance on this.
> > I have two, small by today's standards, IDE drives connected to my IDE > channel 1 as master and slave. The master has two partitions. C has > Windows XP and applications and D is used for Data. The slave is for > backups and archives. I am running out of space on the slave and want to > replace it with a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so. > > BTW, Channel 2 has a DVD reader and a CD Burner. > > Since SATA seems the wave of the near future the replacement will probably > be a SATA. Now my questions. > > 1. Will I need a separate controller card for the SATA? > > 2. How do I connect the power to the SATA since, as I understand it, the > power connection is not the usual Molex type connector found comming > from the power supply? > > Thank you very much. > | |||||||||||||||||||
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>I have two, small by today's standards,
>IDE drives connected to my IDE channel
1> as master and slave.
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