On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:15:07 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:

>
>Duncan Way wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:44:52 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Hi Duncan,
>>>
>>>As you had said SATA drives, I assumed they were SATA not PATA.
>>>
>>>How do they connect - does the cable have different connectors on each 
>>>end - SATA on the mobo end and 80-wire on the drive-end?
>>>Or do they have an interface adapter similar to the "Z" shaped 
>>>80/68-pin/50-pin SCSI adapters which effectively lengthens the drive so 
>>>that it may not fit into a removable drawer insert?
>>>
>>>My ATA-100 removable disk drawers are also hot-swappable if using 
>>>specific software under current Windoze!
>>>
>>These SATA (seagate 160gb) drives are NOT on/in drawers.  They are
in my tower case 
drive bays *replacing* two regular IDE (pata) drives that used to be there.  The 
motherboard has two (2) sata connectors for its controller and two (2) regular ide 
connectors used by cd drives.  The SATA drives are connected directly to the sata 
controller connectors using the proper supplied cables.
>>  
>>
>
>Hi Duncan,
>
>In that case should be no problems - just buy two of the removable units 
>- the drives are fitted directly into the inserts which are then 
>inserted into the containing frames which mount in the same place your 
>drives are currently mounted - assuming that you have the 5.25" drive 
>bays with front access in the conventional manner with a plastic pop-out 
>strip hiding them from view! The SATA cables attach to the rear of the 
>frame and a mini-connector attaches the diskdrive to the mating internal 
>connector!
>
>I have used removable HDD-drawers for years - and have two on every one 
>of my systems - only takes two seconds with power-off to swap [reverse 
>or replace] each drive - for whatever reason and no more skinned 
>knuckles - currently using ATA100 [80-wire] drawers on all but one 
>system which still has 40-wire [UDMA2 maximum], as that mobo predates 
>the ATA66 standard.
>

It is obvious we are not on the same page.  I don't want or need any change to my 
existing setup.  It appears you are thinking of SATA Raid setups, or you did not 
understand my original question.  Again; 1) I have a new motherboard; 2) I have SATA 
drives connected to the onboard controllers; 3) I have no other hard
drives; 4) I was 
asking why the HD LED connection was not working with Warp 4.

If this is not clear please ask for more info privately!

Duncan



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