Adding a second IDE harddrive question
David Dawes
dawes at suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU
Wed Feb 20 21:01:35 AEST 1991
In article <21700 at yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner at yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
>jca at pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>
>>It should work with no problem. You just configure the second drive as a
>>slave drive and make sure the one you want to boot from is configured as a
>>master drive in a dual hard drive configuration. If your dealer won't help
>>you, I'm sure that the hard drive manufacturer will.
>
>What about the cable? Is it just a straight daisy chain, or does the
>second connector get a twist? If so, which leads are twisted?
The cable has no twist -- just a straight 40-line cable. The master/slave
selection is done with a change in jumper settings on BOTH drives (at least
with Conner IDEs).
David
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