Sata Hard drive Master / Slave ?

[dennykyser]

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]

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

 

[Trizoy]

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

 

[apj101]

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

nothing

 

[Hairy_Lee]

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

 

[celsdogg]

i have never even heard of a sata splitter.

 

[Praetor]

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]

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!