Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?
C Christopher Well-known member Feb 9, 2009 #2 Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?
B bizzle Well-known member Feb 9, 2009 #3 Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? Click to expand... 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.
Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? Click to expand... 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.
C Christopher Well-known member Feb 10, 2009 #4 I wasn't I was going to use it as part of server storage. I assume that cable is slave right?
C Christopher Well-known member Feb 10, 2009 #6 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.
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.
C Christopher Well-known member Feb 15, 2009 #7 Update... Success! I have two hard drives now on the optical drive ata bus.