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December 11th, 2004 12:00

Error after adding 2nd Hard drive

I know this kind of follows some of the other discussions here, but haven't seen the answer to this one. Forgive me if I overlooked it.
 
I have a 8300 series with the Maxtor120Gb Serial ATA 150 (Model 6Y120MO). I added an old hard drive from my old PC. It's a Western Digital 60Gb DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)(Model WD600BB).
 
I finally got the pc to recognize the second H/D and was able to access it, but, after about 20-30 minutes, I get the dreaded "blue screen" from windows.
 
To be honest, I did all of this several months ago and got frustrated and gave up, so I really don't remember what alI did during confirguration or even the specifics of the error message...
 
Any idea's on what I can do to get the WD hard drive to work on this PC?
 
 
TIA
Chuck
 
 
 
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    Vienski

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    Posted December 12th, 2004 19:00

    I tried that too on my PC, one HDD is a serial ata and the other is HDD using IDE but it never worked fine. My theory is this:  Serial ATA is about 13% much faster than HDD that uses IDE. I think one of the 2 HDD is trying to adjust its speed on the other. But since they cannot be synchronized, that's why it gives you blue screen.

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