| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2001 at 16:19:30 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: 2.5"/3.5" hard drives (and a few other Q's) |
--- In amigactive@y..., Gareth Griffiths <gazchap@b...> wrote:
> Is it possible for me to put that 2.5" drive in with mine? I read
> somewhere that the buffered interfaces are not capable
> electronically of supporting both types of drive?
I used to have a 3.5"+CDROM on channel1 and my old 2.5" by itself on
channel2 of my previous IDE buffer (was a plain IDEFix type one, as
sold by Eyetech).
I had a 2.5" to 3.5" drive converter (basically two metal brackets to
allow the drive to screw into the 3.5" bay and a small interface
converter PCB which had a 44-way IDE connector on one side and 40-way
IDE and HDD power connectors on the other) and it worked fine.
> If it is possible, I assume that I'd have to use the 2.5" drive as
> the boot drive as it has no Master/Slave jumpers, and then set my
> 3.5" drive to Slave?
If there's no jumpers, then yes, they usually get set to Master, so
you'd have to go with the setup you mention (if you put them both on
the same IDE channel).
However, if they're both on the first channel, you can still boot
from the slave device using the early boot screen.
> girlfriend is a bit apprehensive about it because she hasn't backed
> up her data.
Asking for trouble :) If you've got a backup, you could rename your
partitions ;)
Anyway, hasn't a couple of people already said that the AmigaOS
automatically renames clashing device names?
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