SATA master/ATA slave hard drive help?

[tyberesk]

Im having some trouble hooking up a hardrive and i found this forum thinking you guys/gals will be able to help me. I have a dell 8300 with a SATA 120 gb hard drive. Today someone gave me a 200 gb maxtor Parallel ATA/100 internal hard drive. I need to have everything still run off the SATA 120 gb hard drive, while just using the 200 gb hard drive for music and other things.

I tried a few things already, but anything you guys can do to help me out would be great

Thanks

 

[Ste]

Are you saying that your other EIDE are non-exsistent or occupied?

The ATA 100 Drive should be pulled into the EIDE adapter using a ATA 100 or 133 Ribbon Cable. There are adapters for SATA to EIDE but. Only 1 Drive per SATA Cable. And 2 Device per EIDE Adapter.

 

[tyberesk]

Umm

Well i have the SATA cable plugged into the SATA hard drive and that is working fine.

I have the Ribbon wire plugged into the port it fits into(40 pronged) on the motherboard? THe ribbon wire has 3 40 prong connection things on it (one blue/one grey/one black). I have the blue one into the motherboard and the black one into the ATA 100 hard drive. But it isnt working and i dont know what to do, or what i did wrong?

...Dont mind my poor computer/technical vocabulary im not very advanced in this kind of stuff.

 

[Ste]

Did you set the Drive to Master and Or Cable Select.

The PIns next to the Cable setting. You have to move the jumper to a specific pin combination.

 

[tyberesk]

i set it to slave? took the plastic thingy completely out? What am i supposed to set it to?

 

[Ste]

Master Or Cable Select. Since it is the only device on the ribbon cable.

 

[tyberesk]

Alright im gunna try that....ill be back in a few minutes to tell you how it worked out

 

[tyberesk]

I set the jumpers to master...and plugged the black end of the cable into the drive and the blue end into the motherboard. And its still not working. Any Other Ideas?

 

[Ste]

Did you connect the 4 Pin Molex Connector?

Is it being detected at POST by BIOS.

Since your already Logged into windows, Look in computer managment, Disk managment And post a screen shot if possible. Or tell us what drives it lists.

What CD/DVD Roms do you have?

 

[tyberesk]

Did you connect the 4 Pin Molex Connector? YES

Is it being detected at POST by BIOS. Not Sure?

Your going to havta tell me what to do with the bios. i have no clue what im doing with that.

Ummmm i have a CD R drive and a DVD rW dual layer drive.

It Says i have one disc drive working now. No other ones are listed. Beyond that im kind of confused.