Set a Hard Drive as Slave

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hsetima

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Hello
I have a computer that uses a similar type of hard drive as shown in the picture below.
It is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB
There is a space for the jumper stuff but there are no instructions on the hard drive for slave settings.
Any help will be much appreciated.....

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A SATA hard drive doesn't have master/slave settings like an IDE drive does. It's the simple fact that you can only have one drive per SATA cable as to where with IDE you can have 2 devices per cable. To configure a SATA drive as first boot device, you must do this in the BIOS.
 
This means that although I configure a SATA drive as first boot device in the BIOS, I still cannot connect a second one as there is an additional power slot and data cable slot available for the hard drive...
 
hsetima said:
I still cannot connect a second one as there is an additional power slot and data cable slot available for the hard drive...
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Yes you can. You can use all the SATA ports on the board. But since there is only one drive on each port, there is no Master or Slave. Master and Slave is only for IDE drives, where you can put two drives on the same cable/port.
 
With IDE it's not just a matter of having 2 different drives on the same cable, it's a matter of which of those drives controller is used. All IDE drives have a controller built in to them, when you configure one to be master and another to be slave you are enabling the controller in one and disabling the controller in the other.
 
strollin said:
when you configure one to be master and another to be slave you are enabling the controller in one and disabling the controller in the other.
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No your not. Both controllers are enabled. When setting one as slave, the slave drive has to communicate with the Master drive to see if its idle before it can transfer data.
 
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