Hi! All,

Well, 21st century technology just dawned on me.  A few short hours ago I
pulled a Seagate Barracuda 160Gb SATA drive out of my eldest daughter's old
Dell PC.  It's the first SATA drive I've ever seen close up.  :)

I'm getting stuck for HDD space in my Dell, you see.  The usage is up to
80%, so my Conky stats gauge tells me.  I've just been having too much fun
with it over the last two & half years.  There's only about 98gigs left
and I've got this itchy feeling down my spine; a nervous thing connected
with the idea that drive space will run out.  Which is why I cracked the
case on the old Dell.

I'm all set to plug the Barracuda in as a secondary to the original
as-installed primary, but I looked & looked for a reference 'legend'
for the master/slave jumper settings: t'ain't none!  What!  All the docs
say is that they're full-on plug-n-pray.  What!  This sorta runs counter to
all of my previous PC experience.  I'm on unsteady ground here...

Can this true?  One just plugs in the new drive and off you go?!?  Can
someone offer some calming words of wisdom on the matter, please?

Cheers,
Paul.

... Cogito sumere potum alterum.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox