Two Maxtor as Slaves??

[Hipster Doofus]

Trying to use my two old Maxtor diamomdmax plus 9 drives as slaves for extra storage.

Problem is I can't get them configured properly.

At the moment I have two sata drives hooked up as raid0. My board only has one ide hookup so I have to connect both maxtors to the same cable.

I've tried various jumper settings, sometimes one will show up but not the other. Sometimes neither shows up but if I unplug one the other shows up at reboot. Using other settings the system refuses to boot.

Any suggestions? I've run out of ideas. The manuals just aren't helping.

 

[solarmystic]

If I remember correctly.. those old PATA cables always came with just one Master and one slave connector, so i think regardless of the jumper settings on those two drives, you can only have one drive set to slave on one PATA cable..

TLR, one PATA cable on one IDE hookup = one drive set to Master and one driver set to slave... per cable....

If someone more knowledgeable than me could correct me? Thanks!

P.S. I think if you just kept one of the drives to master mode, and one to slave mode, and just change the boot order so that it boots on your raid, i think it should work just fine =)

 

[A Guy]

Have you tried setting them both to cable select? A Guy

 

[Hipster Doofus]

OK I'll give both of those a go. I'll be back..........

 

[Hipster Doofus]

All sorted. How easy was that. Thanks solarmystic, spot on. Master & slave.

 

[A Guy]

Glad you got it sorted, good help solarmystic + Rep. A Guy

 

[solarmystic]

Hehe.. glad you got it sorted out...

How wonderful is it that with SATA we no longer have to tinker with such settings anymore =)

Progress is a wonderful thing =)