Sata Hard drive Master / Slave ?

dennykyser · 08-24-2005, 07:19 PM

I installed my 2 Sate WD Cavier Hard Drives and one (the 80 gb) does not have a jumper on it. Neither HDD came with any instructions.

I believe I read you dont have to set these to Master and slave, just conect them to Sata 0, Sata 1. am I correct.

I want the 80 gb drive to run only windows XP Pro and possibley my Photoshop CS2 Program so have it set up in sata 0

Hairy_Lee · 08-24-2005, 07:35 PM

sata drives can only be master, you can only have one drive per channel

Trizoy · 08-25-2005, 06:19 PM

speaking of that.. what would happen if you plugged in a splitter to the sata0 and plugged in two drives???

**apj101** · 08-25-2005, 06:21 PM

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speaking of that.. what would happen if you plugged in a splitter to the sata0 and plugged in two drives???

nothing

Hairy_Lee · 08-25-2005, 07:30 PM

its not designed to work under those conditions, up to you if you wanna risk ruining your computer lol

celsdogg · 08-25-2005, 08:19 PM

i have never even heard of a sata splitter.

**Praetor** · 08-26-2005, 03:18 PM

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speaking of that.. what would happen if you plugged in a splitter to the sata0 and plugged in two drives???

Short of homemade engineering, where would you acquire this splitter? Like i mean you could prolly hack something using some IDE/SCSI convertors but thats excssively "out there"

Trizoy · 08-26-2005, 04:59 PM

Come on, you guys dont tinker like that? I might actually try it... And if it fry's the mobo/hardrive ill call dell and have them replace it

Running expermients on dell's dime!

08-24-2005, 07:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
dennykyser Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Warren Pa Age: 44 Posts: 137	Sata Hard drive Master / Slave ? I installed my 2 Sate WD Cavier Hard Drives and one (the 80 gb) does not have a jumper on it. Neither HDD came with any instructions. I believe I read you dont have to set these to Master and slave, just conect them to Sata 0, Sata 1. am I correct. I want the 80 gb drive to run only windows XP Pro and possibley my Photoshop CS2 Program so have it set up in sata 0

08-24-2005, 07:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
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08-25-2005, 06:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mountain View, Ca Posts: 4,663	speaking of that.. what would happen if you plugged in a splitter to the sata0 and plugged in two drives???

08-26-2005, 04:59 PM	#8 (permalink)
Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mountain View, Ca Posts: 4,663	Come on, you guys dont tinker like that? I might actually try it... And if it fry's the mobo/hardrive ill call dell and have them replace it Running expermients on dell's dime!