2 HDD (IDE and SATA) Please help

[szohaib]

Hello guys

 

Just a quick question

 

I have an intel dh55hc motherboard

http://www.plonter.co.il/graphics/product_images/full/DH55HC.jpg

 

i have got 2 hard disks with me.

 

1st one is SATA based 1TB WD

and the second one is Maxtor 300GB IDE

 

I recently bought a IDE TO SATA adaptor.

 

Now the tricky part

 

I dont know how to set the jumpers

 

Can you kindly tell me where should I set the jumpers in order for me to have both the hard disks up and running. My windows boots from the 1TB WD connected via sata.

 

Kindly reply as I have been struggling all day with it

 

Should I be using jumpers on both the hard disks for them to function together or what? No idea.

 

The model numbers are

 

Maxtor 6L300R0

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Maxtor...00R0/ps/623088

 

and the one connected via SATA is

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=763

 

 

Kindly help guys. Really frustrated now

 

Regards

 

Zohaib

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome.

 

 

As your already booting from the 1TB then that is fine.

 

Your Maxtor should have a sticker on it showing how to set slave drive.

 

Jumper settings for Seagate and Maxtor ATA hard drives - HD Doctor Blog

[Dalo Harkin]

All SATA drives are MASTER, IDE can be set to either Master (which would contain an OS, if you were just using the one drive) or if you were using more than one IDE you would have one as Master that contains the OS and the secondary drive containing DATA etc...

 

You can run your IDE as Master or Slave as it doesnt/wont be containing an OS, just make sure that it still boots from the SATA drive and not the IDE

 

The setting on the back of the IDE drive must match its position on the IDE ribbon cable :)