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Optical Drive Hookup
I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put
into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly
"borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
Be that as it may...I want to exaust all options before I come to that
conclusion about this particular adaptor. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS or do anything w/ the master/slave on the back of the drive? It is not my main drive..more of a backup drive. "DL" wrote: Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly "borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
Check the BIOS - some do have a setting to individually enable / disable the
motherboard SATA ports and to set the boot priority. The jumper should probably be set to either master or cable select, but this would be a function of what the adapter calls for. It these items don't help, it's probably a compatibility issue and best to replace the drive. -- "borninusa" wrote in message ... Be that as it may...I want to exaust all options before I come to that conclusion about this particular adaptor. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS or do anything w/ the master/slave on the back of the drive? It is not my main drive..more of a backup drive. "DL" wrote: Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly "borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
If the port was disabled the sys wouldnt baulk at starting, as it wouldnt
see anything connected. "GTS" x wrote in message ... Check the BIOS - some do have a setting to individually enable / disable the motherboard SATA ports and to set the boot priority. The jumper should probably be set to either master or cable select, but this would be a function of what the adapter calls for. It these items don't help, it's probably a compatibility issue and best to replace the drive. -- "borninusa" wrote in message ... Be that as it may...I want to exaust all options before I come to that conclusion about this particular adaptor. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS or do anything w/ the master/slave on the back of the drive? It is not my main drive..more of a backup drive. "DL" wrote: Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly "borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
If the drive is old enough the ribbon cable would be one of the old
40-pin/40-wire cables. Those don't work out on newer computers because of the much higher operating frequencies. There is too much cross-talk in the cable. You need to use a 40-pin/80-wire cable (the intervening wires ground out the cross-talk). If the cable is integral to the drive and is the old style I doubt there is much you can do. "DL" address@invalid wrote in message ... If the port was disabled the sys wouldnt baulk at starting, as it wouldnt see anything connected. "GTS" x wrote in message ... Check the BIOS - some do have a setting to individually enable / disable the motherboard SATA ports and to set the boot priority. The jumper should probably be set to either master or cable select, but this would be a function of what the adapter calls for. It these items don't help, it's probably a compatibility issue and best to replace the drive. -- "borninusa" wrote in message ... Be that as it may...I want to exaust all options before I come to that conclusion about this particular adaptor. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS or do anything w/ the master/slave on the back of the drive? It is not my main drive..more of a backup drive. "DL" wrote: Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly "borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |
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Optical Drive Hookup
I shall check that out and see what happens. The drive is around 5 yrs old
or so...but we shall see. I got the adaptor off ebay for less then $5 shipped..so if it doesnt work..no biggie. I am just trying to avoid buying a new drive. Thanx again "GTS" wrote: Check the BIOS - some do have a setting to individually enable / disable the motherboard SATA ports and to set the boot priority. The jumper should probably be set to either master or cable select, but this would be a function of what the adapter calls for. It these items don't help, it's probably a compatibility issue and best to replace the drive. -- "borninusa" wrote in message ... Be that as it may...I want to exaust all options before I come to that conclusion about this particular adaptor. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS or do anything w/ the master/slave on the back of the drive? It is not my main drive..more of a backup drive. "DL" wrote: Not all IDE/Sata adapters function correctly "borninusa" wrote in message ... I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The drive has IDE connections on the back (its about 5 yrs old or so). I had bought an IDE to SATA drive adaptor in order to hookup the drive to my computer. I put the card on the back of the drive and hooked up one cable out of the back of the drive to an empty power cable...and the other cable out of the back of the drive to the SATA3 slot on the motherboard (the only one not used). I went to re-boot the computer but during the boot process, it hangs. Do I have to do anything to the master/slave thing on the back of the drive or do anything in BIOS before the drive works? I am a bit new to this but I had thought I did things correctly. I just figured that I would slap the drive in..the computer would recognize it..install drivers..and be good to go. Anyways..any help is appreciated (in laymans terms of course). |