Hi ,
I have recently purchased the following product through ebay .
IDE to SATA 2 IDE HDD converter cable adapter.
I have recently purchased a assembled PC locally with following configuration.
Mercury PI945GCM Mother Board with intel Dual Core E2200 ( 2.2 GHz ) processor with 2 GB Ram.
I have used an old 40 GB IDE HDD (SAMSUNG SP0411N - Slave) on which i have installed XP SP 2 in only one of the IDE slots with a Samsung DVD ROM drive as master . The system is up and running. I also have a old seagate 40 GB IDE HDD which i want to connect to the mother board.Since the mother board has only one IDE and four SATA, I can connect only one IDE HDD. I have used the item purchased through ebay to connect the seagate HDD to a SATA slot. Incidently since there is only one power supply connector left, i have used a 1-2 Y power connector cable using which I have connected the power supply to the converter adapter and the seagte HDD.
Following is the power connections to the devices.
1. Power suppy - Samsung DVD drive
2. Power Supply - Samsung 40 GB HDD
3. Power supply - Floppy drive
4. Power supply - used 1 - 2 Y connector to connect the seagate HDD and the IDE to SATA converter.
SO far I have tried the following on seagate HDD pins ( Master, Slave and cable select ).
I have tried all four SATA slots.
The second seagate drive is not recognised either in the BIOS or in the XP. I have used administrative tools to install the Seagate drive with no avail.
Please help me and tell what i am missing ?
If anyone has successfully used such item , please guide me.
Thanks and Regards,
K.S. Ravi
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