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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-02-08 17:27:00
Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?
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Posted by: bizzle on 2009-02-08 17:47:08
Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? I used to on my graphite. Just make sure the jumpers are set correctly. The bus is slower, so don't boot from that drive.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-02-09 20:13:12
I wasn't I was going to use it as part of server storage. I assume that cable is slave right?
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Posted by: Strimkind on 2009-02-09 22:13:37
Yes. The Optical drive will be the master on that bus.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-02-10 07:38:10
Well I just threw in a 27GB WD on there and it worked without a hitch, even without jumpers!
Thanks for the reassurance guys. I tried this before and it didn't work but I found out the cable was bad.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-02-14 21:06:56
Update...
Success! I have two hard drives now on the optical drive ata bus.
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