dual HDD's?

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    what do i need to install my second HDD??
     
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    Internal or external? IDE or SATA?

    See here

    http://www.pcmech.com/show/harddrive/43/

    One thing they don't make clear, is that if you drop one of the little tiny mounting screws into your motherboard, you MUST get it out before you power up!
     
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    ok i have one in my dell pc how do i find out what kind of HDD i have im my pc? i want to install another internal HDD.
     
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    you can access this info in Windows explorer via right clicking on the C: drive or whichever drive it is
     
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    i right clicked on it and all it said was that it was "WDC WD 1600JB-75Gvcd"

    but in linux i found this "IDE1 Master (WDA)"- 160GB WDC WD 1600JB-75Gvcd


    so i think its a ........ide? if so what should i need to get 2 HDD's in it?
     
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    ok so what do i need to put a second HDD into it ? my second HDD is "Hewlett Packard Compaq (BD0728856A) SCSI Hard Drive" are they compatible
     
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    ah, a SCSI hard drive... so do you have the relevant SCSI controller built in to the motherboard, or on a controller card, ie PCI card or whatever ?
     
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    how would i check (my friend game me this HDD) i have added no exptra parts from stock
     
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    what model dell do you have? i doubt you have a scsi port, and just for reference, if your machine's main drive is IDE, i doubt you have a any SATA ports, either.

    you could find a pci controller for you scsi drive on ebay, newegg.com, etc etc and use it that way.
     
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    It's 70 -odd GB. An 80 GB IDE drive would be cheaper than a SCSI controller. Hell, Google shows Adaptec SCSI adapters costing 150 UK pounds ($300) upwards... a 320 GB IDE from novatech costs around 60 UK pounds... 80 GB around 25 pounds... His friend gave him something he couldn't use, now he's finding he can't use it either.
     
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    well, than you can do two things.

    1.) sell the drive on ebay, use the funds to buy a more current drive.

    2.) buy a new drive anyway, take the old drive out back and shoot at it, run it over with a car, play crazyball with it, and whatever else you think of with the resilient little fecker.

    i had a similar situation a while back. i chose the latter option and have no regrets. ^.^
     
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    - yeah, you're thinking further ahead than me there :) ..that's the crux of it
     
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    Aus and indie.. check in the linux forums and see if you can work out what's going on here.

    I see it very clearly.. There is a place called google, which is feeling neglected somehow. Dan's already blown a fuse, and I don't do help by pm...
     
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    LOL. i'm all out of steam now, time to turn in and watch some of 'The Invaders' from my youth instead, fantastic stuff
     
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    jan, i feel sick. :(
     
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    ok well i decided that ill just sell it off on ebay what do u think would be a fair price to ask i noticed bran new ones selling for about 250-270$ and the same model was on one site for 350$ so selling on ebay should i ask alot less ? its new and in pakaging still i only opened once to get model #
     
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    i'd set a reserve at 250 and see where it goes.
     
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    Something smells a bit fishy around here. His "friend" just "gave" him a brand new $350 SCSCI hard drive still in its packaging?
     
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    depends on how good your friends are. ^.^
     
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