Using SATA drives with IDE

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kony said:
I've used quite a few dozens over the past years and had no
problem at all getting them to work with other brands.
What were these unusual configurations you couldn't get to
work in more recent years?

Remember that having one model from the past with an issue
is no evidence against later models by same brand. Today's
Maxtors are more like any other make than they are like a
several generations older model from same make.
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You might be correct; the problems i saw were from the 486 era for
many years; made no difference if the Maxtor drive was Primary Master,
or anything else.
The problems mentioned persisted over many years, even as drive
technology changed and improved.
I got so tired trying to get the damn things to work with other
drives that i have been studiously avoiding them for well over 10 years.
Naturally, if there is only *one* drive in the system, there is no
problem.
But if one needs to do a clone backup to a second hard drive
(temporarily connected for that purpose), then the issue became
prevalent if either one was a Maxtor.
 
kony said:
I've used quite a few dozens over the past years and had no
problem at all getting them to work with other brands.
What were these unusual configurations you couldn't get to
work in more recent years?

Remember that having one model from the past with an issue
is no evidence against later models by same brand. Today's
Maxtors are more like any other make than they are like a
several generations older model from same make.
Click to expand...
You might be correct; the problems i saw were from the 486 era for
many years; made no difference if the Maxtor drive was Primary Master,
or anything else.
The problems mentioned persisted over many years, even as drive
technology changed and improved.
I got so tired trying to get the damn things to work with other
drives that i have been studiously avoiding them for well over 10 years.
Naturally, if there is only *one* drive in the system, there is no
problem.
But if one needs to do a clone backup to a second hard drive
(temporarily connected for that purpose), then the issue became
prevalent if either one was a Maxtor.
 
I find when I do a fresh install, I have to remove the IDE ribbin or power
so the IDE doesn't register in bios. Otherwise the bios will always pick the
IDE drive instead of my IDE drive. Once everything is loaded I plug it all
in again and no problems

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VanShania said:
I find when I do a fresh install, I have to remove the IDE ribbin or power so the IDE doesn't
register in bios. Otherwise the bios will always pick the IDE drive instead of my IDE drive.
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The bios is irrelevant to where the OS installs.
 
It is irrelevant? Is there anything you do not know rod? Do you ever have
a question? You so smart . . . we all hang on your every word. More . . .
more . . . plz . . .

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Just in this group for very first time in newsgroups in long time....hehe
(since like ancient win98 adolescent "wanna-be-hackers"
days....hehe...).........

Spend most of my days (more like nights because of local shops demanding
overnight recoveries) sitting in a very dark cave full of microscopes, lit
up PC's and monitors, with large-screen TV on dig/ cable rambling away in
far corner 24/7, doing Autopsies, forensics, analysis, data recovery and
evidence research on very badly and intentionally damaged and "destroyed"
storage media (HDDs,Tape Carts, Broken DVDs/CDs, flashcards, etc).......

Would be interested to know models/brand of HDD's, and order in which
they're setup )Master vs. Slave, SCSI/IDE partners or co-drives, RAID
stacks, and ESPECIALLY exact jumper settings of each...

Your problem atleast "sounds" to be very simple.....would "seem to" be about
2 minutes effort "IF" you were in NE FL.

But my readings show you being somewhere in North Carolina. looks like Road
Runner, and appears to locate you "Near" Raleigh's out er suburbs of outer
regions, without actually "tracing" as such...LOL....(haven.gotten near
"that" bored as yet, so we'll leave it at a really bad twelve-sec second
wild guess...hehe....


Of course Murphy's law says I'm way too late in asking and being dated from
April, you've more likely long since resolved any and all problems by
now....
 
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