Adding a second IDE harddrive question

Richard Reiner rreiner at yunexus.YorkU.CA
Wed Feb 20 14:40:36 AEST 1991


jca at pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

>It should work with no problem.  You just configure the second drive as a
>slave drive and make sure the one you want to boot from is configured as a
>master drive in a dual hard drive configuration.  If your dealer won't help
>you, I'm sure that the hard drive manufacturer will.

What about the cable?  Is it just a straight daisy chain, or does the
second connector get a twist?  If so, which leads are twisted?

Thanks,



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