Slave and Master Hardrives

[Seraphise]

Recently my main computer broke, motherboard fryed. I have one more computer thats not great, but still decent. If i was to put my main hardrive on Master Or Slave what kinda stuff would i see? Would comp be slower because of 2 hardrives, faster? Would power supply be an issue, and if everything goes good how do the two differentiate when the actual comp boots? Can i play FFXI with my hardrive on slave ? lol

[Cephius]

Just set them to Cable Select (CS). This allows your system to assign them master or slave status automatically depending on its position on the cable. The terms "master" and "slave" as they are used in todays hard drives aren't really what you think anyway. A master drive does not control the slave and the slave doesn't get its commands through the master. The OS controls both, the terms "slave" and "master" are mostly just used for designating which device is where.

I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, are you just adding your HDD from the fried system to another computer? If that's the case, just put both hard drives on CS, connect it to the 2nd bay that should be in your computer, hook everything up and go. If it's an SATA HDD you'll need to connect the cable to the mobo and enable it in your bios. After that your computer should recognize the new HDD and install it.

[Tormentormike]

This is something I was curious about also. The motherboard was not working on my other computer, which is why I opted to buy a new PC. My old hard drive had everything I used on there [FFXI/Photoshop/Visual Basic]. Now my girlfriend plays FFXI, but her hard drive is extremely small apparently, and cant fit ToAU or CoP on it. Is there a way I could hook up my old hard drive on her computer that would allow her to use FFXI off my hard drive, thus giving her ToAU and CoP access?

Sorry if that was poorly worded, don't really know how to explain it. :D

[Cephius]

This is something I was curious about also. The motherboard was not working on my other computer, which is why I opted to buy a new PC. My old hard drive had everything I used on there [FFXI/Photoshop/Visual Basic]. Now my girlfriend plays FFXI, but her hard drive is extremely small apparently, and cant fit ToAU or CoP on it. Is there a way I could hook up my old hard drive on her computer that would allow her to use FFXI off my hard drive, thus giving her ToAU and CoP access?

Sorry if that was poorly worded, don't really know how to explain it. :D

To answer the first part, yes you could install the hard drive on your girlfriend's computer, provided it's a compatible type (some older motherboards don't have the connections needed for SATA) and that there's room on the cable for it. Assuming there is, you just have to connect it and let windows install the new device before you can access data off it.

However, CoP ToAU and FFXI all have to be installed in the same place; you can't have her running FFXI on one hard disk and expect to be able to access ToAU and CoP from the other. I'd just wipe out FFXI (save the Playonline folder, and her macros) and then do a fresh install on the new disk that has enough space.

[Tormentormike]

Thanks for the info Cephius, will go try that out now~

Edit:Just ordered the computer from the other thread! /giddy

[GSDragoon]

Master does get bandwidth priority over slave. That's for PATA, I'm not sure about SATA.