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Jack Gillis
Please tolerate my ignorance on this.
I have two, small by today's standards, IDE drives connected to my IDE
channel 1 as master and slave. The master has two partitions. C has
Windows XP and applications and D is used for Data. The slave is for
backups and archives. I am running out of space on the slave and want
to replace it with a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so.
BTW, Channel 2 has a DVD reader and a CD Burner.
Since SATA seems the wave of the near future the replacement will
probably be a SATA. Now my questions.
1. Will I need a separate controller card for the SATA?
2. How do I connect the power to the SATA since, as I understand it,
the power connection is not the usual Molex type connector found
comming from the power supply?
Thank you very much.
I have two, small by today's standards, IDE drives connected to my IDE
channel 1 as master and slave. The master has two partitions. C has
Windows XP and applications and D is used for Data. The slave is for
backups and archives. I am running out of space on the slave and want
to replace it with a larger drive, perhaps 100g or so.
BTW, Channel 2 has a DVD reader and a CD Burner.
Since SATA seems the wave of the near future the replacement will
probably be a SATA. Now my questions.
1. Will I need a separate controller card for the SATA?
2. How do I connect the power to the SATA since, as I understand it,
the power connection is not the usual Molex type connector found
comming from the power supply?
Thank you very much.