Re: [APML] OT: External Hard Drives for Archiving data

["Brian Larmay" <blarmay523@earthlink.net>]

> Brian,
>
>  Do you hear the old drive spin up when you power on the PC?

Not on the old drive...just the new.....but the old drive is warm and there
is a slight vibration to it.

> During boot
> up, there will be text scrolling on your screen. The Bios will display
> all your drives which are active. It will display which are your primary
> and secondary drives. Do you see this? If you see the primary drive
> displayed but no secondary drive, this means that your old drive is
> either not configured correctly or is not working.

In the bios it says there is no primary slave detected.
I went to advanced settings and heres what it says:

1st boot: IDE-0 (hard drive)
2ndry boot: Floppy:
3rd boot CD Rom

However, I did switch the settings on the secondary boot to IDE-1 to see if
that would do anything....it did nothing so I switched back to the original
settings before I got lost in my own curiosity.

Brian

>
> Loke
>
>
>
> Brian Larmay wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: lkt <tan@cox.net>
> > To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:30 AM
> > Subject: Re: [APML] OT: External Hard Drives for Archiving data
> >
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > >  If you have a new PC, open up the case. An IDE drive controller can
> > > hook up to two drives. Look at the IDE cable which connects  your
> > > motherboard to your primary drive. The 2nd connector on this cable can
> > > be used for your old drive. Make sure you set the pins on your old
drive
> > > to "slave mode". Also make sure you connect power to this drive. There
> > > should be extra power connectors lying around in the chasis. When you
> > > repower up the machine, the old drive will appear as a new "letter"
> > > drive. You can then select and drag to copy.
> > >
> > > To find out how to configure your old drive as a slave, lookup the
> > > website of the maker of the drive. Look up the specific model then try
> > > to find documentation for it. There should be info on the website on
> > > what the pins ought to be set to.
> > >
> > > Loke
> >
> > Thanks Loke,
> >
> > I set the pins to slave and rebooted after hooking up the correct
> > connectors, but there are no extra letters for an added drive.
> > Could it be the drive is fried enough to be unrecognizable?
> > After rebooting it should have at least recognized
> > something.....dunno...this i all new to me.
> >
> > Brian
> >
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