[Ham-Computers] Adding an IDE hard drive to a SATA system

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Dave,

If the CD drive is IDE, reconfigure it to be Drive 1 instead of Drive 0.  If 
the cable going to it only has one drive connector, buy a standard cable.  You 
might also need to buy a wye-cable for the power if there isn't an unused 
plug inside.  Be sure the IDE HD is set as Drive 0, plug everything in and go 
into Setup and see what the machine sees.

In a message dated 6/24/2007 3:21:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dcorio at zitomedia.net writes: 
> Thanks for all the responses!
> 
> Adding an IDE controller card is out, as I already filled the available 
> slots. It's not an old drive - just not quite new. It's an 80G drive 
> that was only used a few weeks.
> 
> As for looking at the instructions, they are sadly lacking on today's 
> new machines. I do know that the cable to the hard drive in the new 
> machine is a double, so another SATA drive could be added easily, and 
> the CD-ROM drive also has a double-tap, but not sure if that would work 
> for the extra hard-drive. I'm sure not an expert on these things!
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 73
> 

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