Serial Ata Master And Slave

Barracuda ES Serial ATA 100424667 Rev. D September 2007 ST3750640NS There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like there is with parallel ATA.

I have 2 SATA Hard drives. In one of my Hard drive, boot sector went bad. So I will not be able to boot boot into my computer using that hard drive. I bought another SATA hard drive. I have some important data on my old hard drive. I want to know how to make my old hard drive as slave and my new hard drive as master. When I connect new hard drive and old hard dive to my computer, old hard drive is not detected. I even checked in checked in BIOS. After booting the computer I also checked in device manager, my old doesn t show up. I also checked fro the jumper in my hard drive. Jumper is not there in both of my hard drive. I m sure that only boot sector is gone bad in my old hard drive because I m getting that message on the screen. Can some one help me turning hard drive master and slave.

Info: brand name of Old hard drive is Hitachi. New hard drive is seagate.

There is no master/slave with SATA drives.

You control which one boots by the boot order in the BIOS. If your drive isn t showing up something is seriously wrong with the drive. Based on what you have said, I suspect that your drive has died and that error is only displaying because a boot sector won t be found on a dead drive. But before all hope is lost

I d try connecting it to a different SATA port on the motherboard, sometimes there are more than 1 controller SATA I, SATA II, or a RAID and I suppose there is a tiny chance you had a controller go bad. Not likely though, esp if you plugged the new drive into the same controller and it shows up.

Jumpers on SATA drives were used in the past on some drives to force a legacy mode if the drive was SATA II and your motherboard could only handle SATA I.

Another possibility is that a few SATA ports may be disabled if they are set to IDE mode.

At the device level, SATA and PATA Parallel AT Attachment devices remain completely incompatible they cannot be interconnected. At the application level, SATA devices can be specified to look and act like PATA devices. 29 Many motherboards offer a legacy mode option, which makes SATA drives appear to the OS like PATA drives on a standard controller. This eases OS installation by not requiring a specific driver to be loaded during setup but sacrifices support for some features of SATA and, in general, disables some of the boards PATA or SATA ports, since the standard PATA controller interface supports only 4 drives. Often which ports are disabled is configurable.

Thanks for your reply. I will try that and let you know.

How to install SATA hard drive as a slave where the master is also SATA How to slave slave. With modern SATA, which is a serial bus Follow PC Advisor.

Troubleshooting Master/Slave Problems with ATA hard drives. This does not apply to Serial ATA drives SATA. SATA drives have one cable per drive.

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Connecting IDE Hard Drives. The older Master Slave relationship. Maxtor/Quantum Serial ATA White Paper http.

Storage - How to make SATA HDD as master and slave

Configuration - The Usual Master/ Slave Arrangement Serial ATA in Mini Format: 2.5 Disk Drive from Fujitsu.

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Parallel ATA then simply called The Serial ATA standard has supported native command queueing since its CF devices can be designated as master or slave.

-Learn how to set jumpers for master, slave and -Learn about the newest form of ATA-Serial ATA IDE Interface The primary interface used to connect a hard disk.

SATA doesn t have master/slave configuration. With a single PATA drive, you need to run it as master. As for controlling which one is the boot drive, that s set in.

How To Install and Troubleshoot Serial ATA Because of this, there is no jumper to set to make a Serial ATA drive a master or slave on its cable.