Need help installing multi HD's

[twiztidtruckie]

i am using a single 9gb hd for the moment in a pentium III machine, and want to install another HD. I have a HP HD that i tried to hook up and had all the cables on(not sure if it was set up right though), and my computer wont recognize it...

Anyone wanna take a shot to help me out?

Truckie, Juggalo King!!!

[om3ga]

hi there Truckie

Have you looked at changing the master and slave settings? Dunno what you know bout them, but I'll explain them anyway !

If you have two drives both on the same IDE cable, one of the drives has to be set as a master, and one as a slave, this is usually set by changing the position of a small "jumper" pin usually located next to the power plug!

I assume since you already have a 9gb hard drive in your computer, that one will currently be set to master, so you're going to want to set your new one as a slave.

The HD should indicate somewhere as to where you have to place the jumper to make it a slave, if not, i guess you can blame HP for not showing it lol

If you need any help with this still, I'll be happy to try and help you out!

cheers!,
om3ga-

[crazyray]

Some HP machines I've used utilized "Cable Select" settings on their hard drives. HP's website is pretty good, offering a lot of info on their products as well as owners manuals and such. I'd use the model number of your HP to search for a manual; I'll bet the issue of adding a hard drive is covered.

I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, how the jumpers are arranged for master, slave, and cable select settings are not standardized for hard drives; different manufacturers use different arrangements, often different on various models. This info should be available on the hard drive manufacturers' web sites.