[ale] adding a new HD

[James Sumners]

You can only have one serial device on one cable. You are going to
need to get a second SATA cable if you want to install the second
drive. Leave the current drive on channel 0 and put the new one on
channel 1.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> ouch.. ok, I need a lesson in SATA drives I guess..
> I had an old spare 160GB IDE drive that I "thought" I would add to my new DELL
> PC. It has a ( almot full) 250Gb SATA drive. When I opened it up I saw the 2
> drive bays on the bottom of the PC, and a spare power cord, but no double
> ribbon cable or IDE cable. SO.. what gives? I read the MANUAL ( almost as
> useless as MAN pages) and all it says is to "plug in the cables"  set it to
> ON in the BIOS and voila!
> Looks like you  add a second ribbon cable from drive 1 to drive 0, with the
> primary cable going to the motherboard from drive 1? or is it the other way
> around...
> any other gotchas??
> dare I ask for a favorite SATA drive?


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