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Cosmos · 03-28-2005, 08:38 PM

Hiya folks...

I'm new here, but I have been lurking for some time. With the information here I have taken an old Snap 1000 with a single 30 GB drive and turned it into two 80 GB drives (I made my own enclosure since 2 drives wouldn't fit in the original case.) I used "Dolly" to clone the original drive, following instructions I found here, also. Now to the point of this post...

When I added the second drive, I just used a standard dual connector IDE cable. Main drive as master and new second drive as slave. It works fine this way. On the motherboard there is what appears to be a second IDE connector. Since this device came with a single drive in it, what would that other connector be for? Power considerations aside, would the device support 4 drives? Anyone had any experience with this?

Thanks a lot!

03-28-2005, 08:38 PM	#489
Cosmos Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: USA Posts: 3	Hiya folks... I'm new here, but I have been lurking for some time. With the information here I have taken an old Snap 1000 with a single 30 GB drive and turned it into two 80 GB drives (I made my own enclosure since 2 drives wouldn't fit in the original case.) I used "Dolly" to clone the original drive, following instructions I found here, also. Now to the point of this post... When I added the second drive, I just used a standard dual connector IDE cable. Main drive as master and new second drive as slave. It works fine this way. On the motherboard there is what appears to be a second IDE connector. Since this device came with a single drive in it, what would that other connector be for? Power considerations aside, would the device support 4 drives? Anyone had any experience with this? Thanks a lot!