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On 06-Jul-97 14:59:13, Mike Harrison is reputed to have said something about Master & Slave Seagate IDE Drives,.
>Hello,

>I have a Seagate ST3491A 3.5" IDE hard drive in my A1200, and I also have
>a Seagate ST9096A 2.5" IDE hard drive lying around unused. I also have an
>old Fujitsu SCSI hard drive hooked up via a surf squirrel.

>I use the Fujitsu as my 'net drive at present, but it is rather slow
>(600 - 700 KB/s).

>It occurs to me that the 2.5" IDE drive is a) quite a bit faster and b)
>pretty much worthless in trade-in terms, so I was wondering if it
>was possible to connect the two IDE drives as master and slave (either
>way round is o.k.) and get some use out of it.

>I have the manufacturers booklet for the ST3491A, but not the ST9096A.

>I don't know if it's possible to mix 2.5 and 3.5 drives in this way.

>Any ideas, anyone?

It is possible to mix `n' match. I had an IBM 345Mb and ??Western Digital
Cavalier in the same machine in the same line. I just hacked the 44 pin
cable to 40 as replaced the 2nd 44 pin in line. The Cavalier was the slave,
the IBM the master. No problems at all. I realise that this does not answer
your question as to the above drives, but at least you know it's possible.


Adrian
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