Second HD in RS322

[shellgrip]

My new WD 160Gb drive has just dropped into my lap at work and I'd like to check something before the new toy demons get hold of me.

The jumpers on the drive have three configurations - Slave, 'Master w/Slave present' and 'Single or Master'. I'm assuming this new drive will need to be 'Slave' but will I have to change anything on the existing drive?

Unless someone's really quick off the draw I'll probably have the case off ten seconds after I get home...

J

[kee-lo_]

Put it in slave mode.

[jammold]

Slave is easiest. Some drives used CSEL (Cable Select), but since thats awkward, I think it was phased out.

[kee-lo_]

Yeah I know people who still use Cable Select...

[shellgrip]

Thanks guys, it was a piece of p**s in the end. The existing drive was on cable select but a bit of jumper & cable juggling and all was well. Probably the easiest drive installation I've ever done.

J

[kee-lo_]

Great.

[madxbri]

wow i have been on about my 40gb hard drive never mind 160Gb drive having said that a m8 had a huge hard drive and it went to pices after 2 weeks and he lost nearly everything he had to get some company to salvage bits of it he wasent happy
i wouldint put all my eggs in one basket just incase

[jammold]

Probably wise madxbri, I always back everything up on to CD-R disks (my system does not have DVD Writing) each an vevery month - Uni work is even higher priority and this gets backed up either every day or every week.

160GB is huge - my 40GB IBM TravelStar drive (thanks EVEREST Home Edition!) still feels gigantic on my VAIO - a huge step up from a 2GB Seagate ST32122A eh? Some of Sony's newest models have 2x256GB for storage!? Now that IS impressive:smileynerd:

Some drives will fail - they can come from a bad batch, have serious firmware issues, experience fatal mechanical shock before reaching the user etc... Lots can go wrong with a hard disk - but regular backups should soothe the pain of a faulty disk drive.

[kee-lo_]

Thats why I love DVD - you can backup tons on one disk!