Second hard drive question

[Jonty]

Is there any reason NOT to make a second hard drive a secondary master or slave?

[senecadan]

shouldn't have any problems as long as you don't have another device set as master on the same channel.

Senecadan

[NDC]

It's best to have hard drives on the same IDE channel. Hooking up a hard disk and a CDROM or any other slower device on the same channel as the hard drive will make a bottleneck. IDE frequencies usually follow the slower device.

[KAknight]

Make sure you have the red thread down the side of the cable facing the side the power goes in.

[spark25]

Yes,slowest device sets the speed on the IDE channel,hopefully your HDD is faster than your CD-ROM,if you put them on the same channel, it won't be.

[Jonty]

Thanks for the advice! In fact I've just installed it (a Quantum Fireball 26GB) and have made it the primary slave.

Even though I say it myself I'm quite pleased with myself as I have never installed a HDD before and this was an OEM version with no instructions or anything. Its working nicely even as I write this!

You know the hardest thing about the install - getting some screws to hold it down! I had to make a couple of visits to the local computer store for screws!