🚀 go-pugleaf

I added a WD340 last week to a Conner 210.  Realize it
will take a while if you do it yourself. It took me about
4 hours including cleaning, and experimentation.

To connect a hard drive, you need to 
	1. screw it in properly
		They normally come in 3 1/2 so you need extra space
		in your 3 1/2 slot, or an adaptor to hang in 5 1/4
		I had plenty of space in my mid tower: only had 
		a floppy and the old hard drive in my 3 1/2 bay.
	2. Connect cables correctly
		a. Power supply - either you have an extra power supply
			cable coming out, or you have to get something
			to split a prior one two ways.
		b. Disk controller cable
			make sure cable is compatible with your drive.
			Also, make sure RED LINE ON ONE SIDE OF 
			CONTROLLER CABLE IS POINTING TOWARDS WHERE YOU
			PLUG IN THE POWER SUPPLY.  This is normally not
			mentioned, but very critical, as I found out.
	3. Set jumpers correctly.
		a. Knowing what correct settings are:
			You need to know what the correct settings for
			each hard disk you have are.  Correct jumper 
			settings frequently differ according to whether
			the disk is being used as a master alone, as a master
			with a slave, or as a slave.  Master is the "C"
			drive - the boot drive. Slave is the second.
			When you buy a hard disk, ask for a sheet with
			all of the correct settings for the different
			situations.  The other thing to ASK THEN AND THERE
			is if they know what the correct settings for your
			earlier hard disk jumpers are supposed to be.  Note,
			even if you make the new one the slave, you may have
			to change the jumpers on the old disk because it is
			now working with a slave rather than alone.
		b. Try different combinations until everything works.
	4. FDisk your new drive: create a partition record, File Allocation
		Table, etc.

A final bit of advice:
Get all possible jumper settings, because, although each combination should
work, you may not be able to get the one you think should work to work right.
I didn't succeed with my first choice, but switched around and got it to
work another way (using the old one as master rather than the new).
This is just a fluke of having hard disks not always working perfectly with
other brands or something like that.  For this reason, people normally
recommend getting the same brand of hard disk as you currently have.  At 
least, always know what you have and always ask if they think there will be
a big incompatibility problem.

Good luck.



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Dale Thompson    thomper@leland.stanford.edu