On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 21:47 -0400, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote: > Thanks Karl, Bruno and Mikkel for the replies. > > I used this: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812101120 > (I mean why do they sell those?!?!!) > > and this: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812201002 Karl is getting confused. Firstly, IDE PATA drives do not *need* to be on separate cables (there's advantages in doing that, but it's not needed). Secondly, you're talking about the power connectors, and that's something completely different, and irrelevent (unless it happens to be faulty - but you'd not see a drive that's not working, not see double). As to two drives being identical, there shouldn't be a problem with two of the same models being connected at once. They won't be totally identical, unless the manufacturer has done something wierd. Even then, I don't think that should be a problem. Connecting two drives with identical data on them (e.g. cloned drives) can be a problem, but that can be worked around. You should say in what manner you're regarding them as identical. You've mentioned that you're using SATA, so that puts PATA master and slave issues out of the question, SATA doesn't share a bus like PATA can. I'm guessing that they way you've connected them, the computer is now trying to boot from the other drive, and you haven't got anything on it to boot from. Try plugging them into each other's data ports, and see if the system boots up from your first drive. e.g. It's looking for drive one, and you've got it plugged into socket two. You might want to do what the message said, go into your BIOS, and play with the options for selecting which is your boot drive. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
