I was wondering if it is possible to use two different kind of drives. Like a IDE and a SATA. Because I have a IDE for my primary hard drive and then I bought this SATA for a slave, but I don't know if you can do that.
Ya sure ya betcha you can do that.
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Alright, installing this hard drive has been the hardest thing to install on my computer... It's getting old lol.
Better that the IDE be the slave now since SATA is better.
Be thankful you have SATA slots, I don't.thareaper254 wrote:
Alright, installing this hard drive has been the hardest thing to install on my computer... It's getting old lol.
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
Switch the jumpers position on them so the IDE one is in the "slave" position and the SATA one is in the "master" position.thareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
Well the thing about this new SATA drive it didn't come with a diagram saying where to put the pins if you want it to be slave, primary, or whatever. Which makes me mad, but does it really matter if it is primary or slave?_j5689_ wrote:
Switch the jumpers position on them so the IDE one is in the "slave" position and the SATA one is in the "master" position.thareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
Last edited by thareaper254 (2007-05-07 17:12:21)
I'm pretty sure it's standard format for all hard drives. Google stuff about setting up slave and master jumpers on hard drives.thareaper254 wrote:
Well the thing about this new SATA drive it didn't come with a diagram saying where to put the pins if you want it to be slave, primary, or whatever. Which makes me mad, but does it really matter if it is primary or slave?_j5689_ wrote:
Switch the jumpers position on them so the IDE one is in the "slave" position and the SATA one is in the "master" position.thareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.
SATAs are one device per channel, that is, there is no Master/Slave with SATA._j5689_ wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's standard format for all hard drives. Google stuff about setting up slave and master jumpers on hard drives.thareaper254 wrote:
Well the thing about this new SATA drive it didn't come with a diagram saying where to put the pins if you want it to be slave, primary, or whatever. Which makes me mad, but does it really matter if it is primary or slave?_j5689_ wrote:
Switch the jumpers position on them so the IDE one is in the "slave" position and the SATA one is in the "master" position.
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I forgot about that. Does that mean he has to set it up from inside Windows?Cheez wrote:
SATAs are one device per channel, that is, there is no Master/Slave with SATA._j5689_ wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's standard format for all hard drives. Google stuff about setting up slave and master jumpers on hard drives.thareaper254 wrote:
Well the thing about this new SATA drive it didn't come with a diagram saying where to put the pins if you want it to be slave, primary, or whatever. Which makes me mad, but does it really matter if it is primary or slave?
What would change if I set the SATA to primary and the IDE to slave, performance wise?
Maybe someone else can explain it, I just know it's better. SATA is faster than IDE so you should make that your primary HDD.thareaper254 wrote:
What would change if I set the SATA to primary and the IDE to slave, performance wise?
Much better. If you get yourself HD Tach (not sure if that other program does it), it shows you Access rates (speed) of the hard drives.thareaper254 wrote:
What would change if I set the SATA to primary and the IDE to slave, performance wise?
This will at least give you numbers to compare instead of seedy testimonials.
Plug it in, if your computer is a little old go into BIOS and change the SATA controller to anything other than RAID (eg. IDE), and if need be get drivers for the controller so Windows can see it. Most likely a SiliconImage or something, check your Manuel.
If your computer is a little newer, they thought 'hey that's a pain in the arse' and they just go now, like PATA drives.
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Well, my drive wont work for some reason, I've followed all the steps, I've plugged everything in. The last reason I can think of why it wont read my hard drive is because the jumper. Could that be the problem?
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg … 284#jumper
This shows jumper settings, but it says nothing about how to set it as slave.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg … 284#jumper
This shows jumper settings, but it says nothing about how to set it as slave.
Last edited by thareaper254 (2007-05-07 18:07:43)
It is SATA.
There is only one device per cable
It does not have a MS/SL/CS jumper
It does not need a MS/SL/CS jumper
That is a compatibility (slow but guaranteed to work) jumper, which limits it to 1.5mbps (yes?), if you have the older motherboard, its best to probably leave that on.
________
Now then, in your BIOS (At Energy Efficient star, mash Del).
Under main, where you see the regular IDE devices, do you have extra listings (channel 2 and 3)?
If so, make all NONEs to AUTOs and reboot.
If not, go into Intergrated Peripherals and set your SATA Controller to something that is not RAID, either 'non-RAID' or 'IDE'.
________
Once this is done, you will see your drive show up either with the Energy Efficient star as an extra device, or if you had to go to Intergrated Peripherals, a second screen (for older boards). If this is the case, you will have to get a driver for Windows. Your Manuel will have the chipset/brand of controller or if you have the cd, install off that.
There is only one device per cable
It does not have a MS/SL/CS jumper
It does not need a MS/SL/CS jumper
That is a compatibility (slow but guaranteed to work) jumper, which limits it to 1.5mbps (yes?), if you have the older motherboard, its best to probably leave that on.
________
Now then, in your BIOS (At Energy Efficient star, mash Del).
Under main, where you see the regular IDE devices, do you have extra listings (channel 2 and 3)?
If so, make all NONEs to AUTOs and reboot.
If not, go into Intergrated Peripherals and set your SATA Controller to something that is not RAID, either 'non-RAID' or 'IDE'.
________
Once this is done, you will see your drive show up either with the Energy Efficient star as an extra device, or if you had to go to Intergrated Peripherals, a second screen (for older boards). If this is the case, you will have to get a driver for Windows. Your Manuel will have the chipset/brand of controller or if you have the cd, install off that.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
I love you! It reads it now, everything is set up. Yay, thanks for the help. I should have tried that to start with.Cheez wrote:
It is SATA.
There is only one device per cable
It does not have a MS/SL/CS jumper
It does not need a MS/SL/CS jumper
That is a compatibility (slow but guaranteed to work) jumper, which limits it to 1.5mbps (yes?), if you have the older motherboard, its best to probably leave that on.
________
Now then, in your BIOS (At Energy Efficient star, mash Del).
Under main, where you see the regular IDE devices, do you have extra listings (channel 2 and 3)?
http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/ar … res_al.jpg
If so, make all NONEs to AUTOs and reboot.
If not, go into Intergrated Peripherals and set your SATA Controller to something that is not RAID, either 'non-RAID' or 'IDE'.
http://publish.it168.com/2006/0515/images/690037.jpg
________
Once this is done, you will see your drive show up either with the Energy Efficient star as an extra device, or if you had to go to Intergrated Peripherals, a second screen (for older boards). If this is the case, you will have to get a driver for Windows. Your Manuel will have the chipset/brand of controller or if you have the cd, install off that.
Last edited by thareaper254 (2007-05-07 19:39:28)
Thought I'd scoop up any unanswered questions h'yar.
I have mine at 512MB - 1536MB because I've only got 1GB RAM and a turd of a CPU.
! REMEMBER TO HIT SET AFTERWARDS !
Find this under Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Changethareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
I have mine at 512MB - 1536MB because I've only got 1GB RAM and a turd of a CPU.
! REMEMBER TO HIT SET AFTERWARDS !
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
You should have it at at least twice that.Cheez wrote:
Thought I'd scoop up any unanswered questions h'yar.Find this under Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Changethareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
I have mine at 512MB - 1536MB because I've only got 1GB RAM and a turd of a CPU.
! REMEMBER TO HIT SET AFTERWARDS !
I have it at 3000 and I have 2gb RAM.
I bet you freak out when your PF Usage in Task Manager reaches 3%CrazeD wrote:
I have it at 3000 and I have 2gb RAM.
* 80GB IDE + TorrentsCrazeD wrote:
You should have it at at least twice that.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
I don't get it.Cheez wrote:
Thought I'd scoop up any unanswered questions h'yar.Find this under Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Changethareaper254 wrote:
How am I suppose to do that? I'm not the smartest person with computers.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Run the SATA as your main drive for Windows and programs. Move your music, pics, etc. and pagefile to the IDE drive. With the pagefile on a separate drive from Windows you should see a nice little performance boost.
I have mine at 512MB - 1536MB because I've only got 1GB RAM and a turd of a CPU.
! REMEMBER TO HIT SET AFTERWARDS !
Change size of page file on the left, hit set on the right to approve this. You can select the drives at the top.
so, you set it so it's the same as the other one?ghettoperson wrote:
Change size of page file on the left, hit set on the right to approve this. You can select the drives at the top.
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7529/pagefilepy7.jpg
Well, I'm not entirely sure if you can set it so that the pagefile goes to one HDD. I have a pagefile on each HDD. I have a feeling if you tried then you'd just not have a pagefile on the SATA but not the IDE. But anyway, if it does work what you want to do is select the SATA at the top and then press the No paging file button and hit set. Then set the one on the IDE HDD to about 3 gigs.thareaper254 wrote:
so, you set it so it's the same as the other one?ghettoperson wrote:
Change size of page file on the left, hit set on the right to approve this. You can select the drives at the top.
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7529/pagefilepy7.jpg