New to SATA

wingrider.steve · 03-07-2006, 08:40 AM

I'm about to install two new SATA hard drives, the first time I've used SATA.
How does the PC differentiate between the master and the slave, I am told you do do not set jumpers as on EIDE drives?

suprasteve · 03-07-2006, 05:34 PM

there really isn't master/slave that you need to set, if you have one drive, it'll be master, if you have two, one will be slave, it makes no difference in performance. I have two drives, one with my OS and one for storage. Once I unplugged my OS drive (don't ask) and didn't plug it back in. WHile trying to figure out wat was wrong with my computer, I noticed my second drive was now the primary in bios and the OS drive wasn't showing up. Point in that is that the computer automatically assigns master/slave

wingrider.steve · 03-07-2006, 08:34 PM

Thanks, thats just the info I needed.

03-07-2006, 08:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
wingrider.steve New Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	New to SATA I'm about to install two new SATA hard drives, the first time I've used SATA. How does the PC differentiate between the master and the slave, I am told you do do not set jumpers as on EIDE drives?

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wingrider.steve New Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	New to SATA Thanks, thats just the info I needed.

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03-07-2006, 05:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	there really isn't master/slave that you need to set, if you have one drive, it'll be master, if you have two, one will be slave, it makes no difference in performance. I have two drives, one with my OS and one for storage. Once I unplugged my OS drive (don't ask) and didn't plug it back in. WHile trying to figure out wat was wrong with my computer, I noticed my second drive was now the primary in bios and the OS drive wasn't showing up. Point in that is that the computer automatically assigns master/slave