installing sata hard drive

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paulcrill

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Hi all

I recently picked up a seagate 500gb sata hard drive. do I need anything special to install it or do I just do as normal. (Hook it up, and install vista.) the reason I'm asking is that I was doing a search to see how the cables connect (i've only had ide before this) and people were talking about needing drivers etc.
 
Drivers in windows will be fine

XP needs a driver disk for an installation to said-drive however

Also a last note,if the drive is SATA2 and your board only supports SATA1 some drives have a switch to set it to SATA1 to avoid hassles with detection
 
Earlier releases of XP (the ones without SP's) will give you beans but other than that, it should be painless
 
kay, I've got windows installed. Pretty painless. Does anyone know if I can attach an ide disc drive as well? I've got my old 160 seagate that I want to use as a backup drive. How does the sata influence the master/slave thing?
 
paulcrill said:
kay, I've got windows installed. Pretty painless. Does anyone know if I can attach an ide disc drive as well? I've got my old 160 seagate that I want to use as a backup drive. How does the sata influence the master/slave thing?
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No problem attaching and using together - the master/slave does not interfere with the SATA drive either, as the SATA ports are different. The master/slave jumper switch would bepend on which part of the IDE cable you attach the drive to - otherwise us the cable-select jumper (CS) -- that way it doesn't matter where it's attached...

I have 2 PATA/IDE HDD's as master and slave on my primary IDE cable, and 4x SATA HDD's on my onboard SATA ports (not RAID configured) - work great and no problems...
 
howardb said:
No problem attaching and using together - the master/slave does not interfere with the SATA drive either, as the SATA ports are different. The master/slave jumper switch would bepend on which part of the IDE cable you attach the drive to - otherwise us the cable-select jumper (CS) -- that way it doesn't matter where it's attached...

I have 2 PATA/IDE HDD's as master and slave on my primary IDE cable, and 4x SATA HDD's on my onboard SATA ports (not RAID configured) - work great and no problems...
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Agreed, master/slave considerations don't really play a role with SATA. Just put the jumper on your IDE drive on Cable Select and you're good to go :)
 
paulcrill said:
Thanks for that. What is RAID anyway?
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Good question, I should really add that to the FAQ.

Without getting too technical or too in-depth, RAID is a way that you can combine hard drives to form a single logical partition (striping data across multiple disks) or having another hard drive(s) as backup in case of a drive failure.
 
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