Sata / Ide Harddrive Question

[King_Nothing]

Hey everyone, I'm sure that most of the techies here are sick of hearing me ask about harddrives lol, but I do have yet another question.

Currently, I am running a Western Digital 250GB SATA2 harddrive as my only harddisc (with 3 partitions). I do have another WD 250GB IDE harddrive that I would like to hook up as a slave.
Only problem is, I am not sure how to do it lol. The drive is formatted and ready to go. I've tried finding sites on the web and they really do not seem to help. My MOBO is an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium if that helps. I'm not the best with hardware so it all looks like the engine of the space shuttle to me.

Any advice would be appriciated, thanks!

[Elmoz]

Look at the pic, above the red line, there is a white piece, i cant remembe rthe name but anyway hehe. You change that and put it on the Slave slot, there is 3 slots.

at the top of the case it says something like S------ Slave, M-------- Master and other one.

the pc will do the rest, it should automatically detect it

[Speed Damage]

I have the same motherboard and had a similar setup at one time, so you're in luck.

All you have to do is hook the IDE drive up using the black "HDD Cable" IDE cable included with the motherboard. However, if I remember correctly, you have to make sure you hook it up to the black connection (slave) on the cable, not the gray one (master). You also need to set the jumper on the drive to slave, but I can't verify this for sure because my IDE hard drive doesn't have a jumper on it, but its working fine because I think the default is slave when there is no jumper present.

SATA drives do not have master/slave relationships, so you can't set it to master, but I think if you hook the IDE drive up as slave via the cable and jumper, then it assumes that the SATA drive is the primary drive because the IDE is slave.

[sjmike]

i wouldn't worry about setting the jumper on the IDE HD, I believe default is Cable Select. I have a mix of SATA II and IDE HDs in my case with the SATA II as my primary. My BIOS recognizes the SATA drives 1st then the IDE HDs.

[sorrowman]

I think it doesn't really matter which connector you connect it tom but just to be sure set it as Slave with the jumper and connect it with the right connector to the Primary IDE-Channel. Also make sure you select the right disc in the BIOS to boot from. For some reason boot-order can change on certain MOBO's when connecting extra HD's to it, and if you don't select the SATA disc (I presume your OS is on that one) then you might end up with a PC that can't boot into the OS. If so that's not harfull in itself, just go to the BIOS and mae sure the right disc is selected to boot from, and that should do it.

[King_Nothing]

Thanks for all the info guys, I think I understand it now