installing a 2nd hrd. drive? how is it done?

[islander]

installing a 2nd hrd. drive? how is it done?i would like to keep my current hrd drive(6gigs) & i would like to intall a 2nd hrd drive,i'm looking @ a 20.5 or a 30 gig...any source, links, pics, tutorials, suggestions or recomendations would be greatly appreciated...

let me just add that i currently have a dvd drive & a CDR/W Drive..like i mentioned above i intend to add a 2nd Hard Drive..

[This message has been edited by islander (edited 07-27-2000).]

[Ultima]

Well,

when I got my 2nd quantum 18.2Gb disk, I just put it on the same ide cable as the first.

I had the boot up disk set to master and the second 1 to slave.

I made a partition and formatted it, and it has worked fine ever since.
I think it is just with seagate and WD hd's not with quantum.

Pim

[Brydon]

Here is a guide for you http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/howto_installhdd.shtml

[rnmcd]

Will my system run fine if I install the hard-drive with the OS and software as the Primary Master and a CD-RW as the Primary Slave.

On the Secondary IDE I would like to have another hard drive (for audio and video files) as the Master.

Will there be any problems?

Will the CD-RW slow down the 7200 rpm hard drive that it shares the cable with?


I am building my first PC for video editing and want to make sure I do this correctly.

Thanks,rnmcd

[loul]

NO!!
You don't really want that as you could come across a few problems.Personally i have hard drive 1 (the one with your OS) as master to CDROM on primary IDE.
On secondary IDE i have CDRW as master and hard drve 2 as slave.Your CDRW should be MASTER wherever possible to avoid possible bufferun errors whilst burning..Good luck http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Fingers]

I would like some definitive advice on this topic. It is my belief that it doesn't matter which drive is the master and which is the slave. The bios could just as easily identify the drives as male and female, one isn't given priority over the other(except for assignment of drive letters). What does matter however is which drives share a channel. Drives on the same channel have a lower potential data transfer rate than drives on separate channels. If your priorty is transfering from HDD to HDD, then put your HDD's on separate channels. If you want to burn from HDD to CD-R, then put them on separate channels. If your want to burn from CD-Rom to CD-R(W), then put them on separate channels. Drives on the same channel will work just fine under normal circumstances, but for optimal performance, follow the advice above.

This is what I've been taught and I've found it to be true.

[This message has been edited by Fingers (edited 07-26-2000).]