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April 11th, 2006 03:00
Adding 2 HDDs, without success
Folks:
Help, please. I had 2 IDE hard drives (a Western Digital WD2000 and a Seagate ST3300631A-RK) lying around, had the brilliant idea of adding them to my XPS 400, then realized it was built to handle SATA drives. So, I bought a couple of Addonics IDE-Serial ATA converters, plugged in the converters, power and data cables correctly (I believe), and ... still neither is recognized. What am I doing (or not doing) wrong?
This is supposed to be simple, no?
I thank you in advance,
mdlam
P.S. I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2.
Help, please. I had 2 IDE hard drives (a Western Digital WD2000 and a Seagate ST3300631A-RK) lying around, had the brilliant idea of adding them to my XPS 400, then realized it was built to handle SATA drives. So, I bought a couple of Addonics IDE-Serial ATA converters, plugged in the converters, power and data cables correctly (I believe), and ... still neither is recognized. What am I doing (or not doing) wrong?
This is supposed to be simple, no?
I thank you in advance,
mdlam
P.S. I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2.
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WolverineMachin
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April 11th, 2006 12:00
It's your Raid controlling probably. Are there Raid controllers set up for drives or are you just trying to add in more drives into the system. Most systems have an onboard limitation for certain types of drives like scuzi, which have the most unlimited of 7 per channel. But IDE will need to be limited to the amount the mobo can support and if it's setup for SATA then the controllers aren't there for the RAID factor of IDE interface even though you got connectivity with the drives. Or if no Raid is needed and you got Sata default setup then Raiding the drives to accept IDE will need to be done. I wouldn't slow the system down with IDE except for external drives when you got a Sata setup. Unless your using the drives for basic storage. Check your bios settings to see what you can enable first for drive recognition.
mdlam
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April 11th, 2006 12:00
Do IDE limitations apply? I'm using snap-on converters for each IDE drive. These permit me to plug in SATA power and data cabling so they function as SATA drives, no?
Device manager shows no RAID controllers, although Set Up gives me the option of testing or mandating RAID.
I just want these HDDs for storage. My mobo has 4 SATA connections (1 occupied by original/boot HDD, 3 open).
Thx,
mdlam
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April 16th, 2006 19:00