Today's hard disk capacity is getting bigger and bigger, and the price is getting cheaper. For the user, the hard disk space is "Han Xin Point, a lot of benefits", and the two hard drives installed for the computer have become the most common means of "expansion". However, how to install and use dual hard drives has become the problem we have to face ...
Double PATA hard disk installation
I believe there are still many people using the hard drive of the PATA (parallel ATA) interface. The largest feature of this type of hard disk is to perform data transmission through a flat IDE data cable. So how do you install two PATA hard drives?
1. Planning the main relationship between IDE equipment
The general motherboard provides two IDE interfaces that can be connected to four IDE devices. However, in addition to the hard disk, users typically have 1 or 2 optical drives. Therefore, to get better performance, it is planned to plan the installation location of these three or 4 devices.
(1) Double PATA Hard Drive 1 Cave
It is recommended to set the capacity and fast hard disk to the primary disk, connected to the data line of the IDE 1 interface; set another hard disk as a primary disk, the optical drive is set to slave the disc, both together in the IDE 2 interface The data cable is on.
hint:
When the system starts, the order in which the boot disk is searched is first Ide 1, and then Ide 2. Setting the high-speed hard drive into a primary disk to connect to the system disk on IDE 1, which can improve the performance of the system.
(2) Dual PATA Hard Drive Double Channel Drive
It is similar to the above connection. It is recommended to pick up a CD-ROM (slave) in addition to the high-speed hard disk as the primary disk. At the same time, Ide 2 is also a hard disk plus a CD-ROM.
2. Setting the hard drive and the optical drive to see the top of the top, from the above, it can be seen that whether it is a double PATA hard drive plus a CD-ROM drive, or a double PATA hard drive plus two optical drives, the hard disk is "main", the optical drive It is "slave". Therefore, the jumper of the hard disk and the optical drive must be set as required. In the jumper settings of the IDE device, generally use "master" to indicate "primer", "slave" means "slave". The hard disk is generally the default is "primary disc", and the jumper at the time of the CD-ROM is generally "slave" by default. When installing the hard disk and the optical drive, you should carefully see the jumper setting of the main / slave disk of the device. 3. Install the PATA hard drive After setting the jumper, you can follow the installation position planned above, put the hard disk, the optical drive one by one in the chassis, and then connect the data cable and power cord of the device. Note that you must pay attention to the three ports on the data cable when using the data cable, and you cannot connect the device. The port of the middle is "slave", which is used to connect from the disk; the most recent "slave" port is "master", is used to connect the primary disc; the farthest "SLAVE" is "system" It is inserted on the IDE interface of the motherboard. 4. BIOS settings and hardware detection After the hard disk is installed, we can enter the BIOS to see if the hard disk is working properly: start the computer, enter the "Standard CMOS Setup" in the BIOS (Standard CMOS Setting). Set the hard disk "Type" and "Mode" to "Auto", let the BIOS automatically detect the hard drive. You can also detect your hard drive through the "IDE HDD Auto Detection" option in the main menu. Today's motherboard has automatic detection function, as long as there is no physical failure, it can generally be detected. At this time, you can see the devices on the 4 IDE ports in the BIOS. Tip: If the computer does not detect the hard disk, or when the hard disk is detected, consider the following cases: hard disk jumper error; data cable connection error; no power line; motherboard BIOS does not support big hard disk; The situation is easier to solve, as for BIOS does not support big hard drives, can be solved by upgrading the BIOS method. Of course, you can also skip the motherboard BIOS limit through third-party software, and each hard disk manufacturer provides this software, you can download it on the official website.
"1 PATA 1 SATA" Double-hard drive installation SATA (serial ATA) is the future development trend of the hard disk, and the SATA hard drive and the motherboard supporting the SATA hard drive are also more and more. The largest change in the appearance of the SATA hard drive is to adopt a very narrow "L"-shaped data cable interface and a flat power cord interface. Motherboards that support SATA hard drives generally provide 2 or 4 SATA interfaces. 1. Settel Series Chipset Board Settings (1) 1 PATA Hard Drive 1 SATA Hard Drive 1 Cave Representative of ICH5, ICH5R, ICH6, ICH6R support SATA, current I865 , I875 and the latest I915, I925 series chipset provide support for SATA. If the SATA interface of the motherboard is provided by the ICH5 / ICH5R chip, it should be connected: Where the PATA hard disk is set to "Main Plate" and connect to the "master" end of the data cable, set the optical drive to "slave" and connect to the "slave" end of the data cable, and finally This IDE data cable is connected to the "IDE2" interface of the motherboard. When connecting the SATA hard drive: Some SATA hard drives generally have traditional 4-pin power interface and SATA power interface. You can choose one of the interfaces to connect to the power supply when used, but never connect these two interfaces. The power plug is powered down, otherwise it will burn the hard disk. Once all the hard drives and optical drives are connected, after connecting the above methods, connect the power cord of the device. Next, start your computer to enter the BIOS, select and go to the Integrated Peripherals setting window, and then go to the "OnChip IDE Device" setting screen. In this picture, in addition to setting "IDE HDD Block Mode", "On-Chip Primary PCI IDE", "On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE" is set to "Enabled", the other eight options are all set to "Auto ". Move the cursor to the "On-Chip Serial ATA" option under the window, press the Enter key, then select "Combined Mode" in the pop-up window. Finally, move the cursor to "Serial ATA Port0 Mode" and press Enter to select "Primary Master" in the pop-up window and enter. The settings of the "ON-Chip Serial ATA" and "Serial ATA Port0 Mode" option are "Combined Mode" and "Primary Master", respectively. Press the "F10" button to save the BIOS settings. After restarting the computer, then enter the BIOS "Standard CMOS Features" window will find that the SATA hard disk accounts for the "IDE Channel 0 Master" channel, and the PATA hard disk occupies "IDE Channel 1" Master "channel, the optical drive occupies the" IDE Channel 1 Slave "channel. Tip: After the above settings, the priority of the SATA hard drive is higher than the PATA hard drive, it is recommended to install the operating system on the SATA hard drive (at this point the first partition of the SATA hard drive under DOS is "C" disk). If you don't want to use the SATA hard drive as a system disk, you want to install the operating system on the PATA hard drive, you can improve the startup priority of the PATA hard drive in the BIOS: Go to the Advanced Bios Features window, select "Hard Disk Boot Priority" and Enter the hard drive Start Priority Settings window. In this window, the default is the SATA hard drive in front of the PATA hard drive. You can select the PATA hard drive, then press the "PAGE" button to make the PATA hard drive in front of the SATA hard drive.
Finally, the BIOS settings are saved and restart the computer so that the first partition of the PATA hard drive is "C" in DOS. (2) 1 PATA hard drive 1 SATA hard drive 2 optical drives connect the data cable of the SATA hard drive to the "SATA1" interface of the motherboard; set the PATA hard drive to "slave", then use 1 The IDE data cable connects it to the "IDE1" interface of the motherboard; set two drives to "Main Plates" and "From", then use an IDE data cable to connect these two optical drives to the motherboard "IDE2 "On the interface. Note that when connecting the hard disk and the optical drive, pay attention to the selection of the data line port. The equipment is installed in the BIOS, and the setting method of the specific setting method and the front "1 PATA hard disk 1 SATA hard drive 1 optical drive" are similar. Different places are the settings for the "ON-Chip Serial ATA" option and the "Serial ATA Port0 Mode" option, where the former should be set to "Enhanced Mode", the latter must be set to "SATA0 MASTER". Save the BIOS settings and restart the computer, and then enter the BIOS "Standard CMOS Features" window will find that there are 6 IDE equipment channels, where the PATA hard disk occupies the "IDE CHANNEL 0 SLAVE" channel, while two optical drives The "IDE Channel 1 Master" is occupied and the "IDE Channel 1 Slave" channel, and the SATA hard drive occupies the "Ide Channel 2 Master" channel. After the above settings, the PATA hard drive priority is higher than the SATA hard drive. If you want to use the SATA hard drive as the first start disk, you can rank the SATA hard drive in the PATA hard drive in the "Hard Disk Boot Prior" window.
