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Can an EIDE hard drive be added to an SR2050NX?
I just purchased an SR2050NX. Thing look OK so far.
I do have a question. I would like to install an additional hard drive to write backups to. I would like to use an EIDE drive because they are cheap. Best buy has a Seagate 120Gb drive for $50 this week. Speed is not an issue, since it will just be used to by Acronis TI Home 9.0 to store the backup files. Does anyone know if there are problems adding an EIDE drive to this machine which comes with a SATA drive? I presume I can install the drive in the unused external 3.5" location designated as the "Floppy" location. (There isn't an extra internal 3.5" slot.) If I do need a floppy on the machine, I would use an external USB one. I don't see any obvious issues. Is anyone aware of any? I called Compaq tech support, but I was told that this type of advice was not covered by normal Customer Support. The tech did try to tell me what he could. He didn't find any obvious issues, but he was less than confident. -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Can an EIDE hard drive be added to an SR2050NX?
Ken Wampach wrote:
I just purchased an SR2050NX. Thing look OK so far. I do have a question. I would like to install an additional hard drive to write backups to. I would like to use an EIDE drive because they are cheap. Best buy has a Seagate 120Gb drive for $50 this week. Speed is not an issue, since it will just be used to by Acronis TI Home 9.0 to store the backup files. Does anyone know if there are problems adding an EIDE drive to this machine which comes with a SATA drive? I presume I can install the drive in the unused external 3.5" location designated as the "Floppy" location. (There isn't an extra internal 3.5" slot.) If I do need a floppy on the machine, I would use an external USB one. I don't see any obvious issues. Is anyone aware of any? I called Compaq tech support, but I was told that this type of advice was not covered by normal Customer Support. The tech did try to tell me what he could. He didn't find any obvious issues, but he was less than confident. Contact HP Parts, there may be a "second hard drive kit" available for that model. This allows mounting the drive below the flash slots. |
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Can an EIDE hard drive be added to an SR2050NX?
On Oct 19, 9:56 pm, "Ken Wampach" wrote: I just purchased an SR2050NX. Thing look OK so far. I do have a question. I would like to install an additional hard drive to write backups to. I would like to use an EIDE drive because they are cheap. Best buy has a Seagate 120Gb drive for $50 this week. Speed is not an issue, since it will just be used to by Acronis TI Home 9.0 to store the backup files. Does anyone know if there are problems adding an EIDE drive to this machine which comes with a SATA drive? I presume I can install the drive in the unused external 3.5" location designated as the "Floppy" location. (There isn't an extra internal 3.5" slot.) If I do need a floppy on the machine, I would use an external USB one. I don't see any obvious issues. Is anyone aware of any? I called Compaq tech support, but I was told that this type of advice was not covered by normal Customer Support. The tech did try to tell me what he could. He didn't find any obvious issues, but he was less than confident. -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg A couple of points. If you have a 5 1/4" bay, you can easily, and cheaply get a mounting kit. Worst case is you have to get a seperate controller card and plug it it to a free pci slot. Most machines do not yet have SATA CD drives, so there should be at least 1 ide controller on the board. HOWEWER, as this dirve is just a backup, might you want to consider making that drive external? |
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Can an EIDE hard drive be added to an SR2050NX?
wrote in message oups.com... On Oct 19, 9:56 pm, "Ken Wampach" wrote: I just purchased an SR2050NX. Thing look OK so far. I do have a question. I would like to install an additional hard drive to write backups to. I would like to use an EIDE drive because they are cheap. Best buy has a Seagate 120Gb drive for $50 this week. Speed is not an issue, since it will just be used to by Acronis TI Home 9.0 to store the backup files. Does anyone know if there are problems adding an EIDE drive to this machine which comes with a SATA drive? I presume I can install the drive in the unused external 3.5" location designated as the "Floppy" location. (There isn't an extra internal 3.5" slot.) If I do need a floppy on the machine, I would use an external USB one. I don't see any obvious issues. Is anyone aware of any? I called Compaq tech support, but I was told that this type of advice was not covered by normal Customer Support. The tech did try to tell me what he could. He didn't find any obvious issues, but he was less than confident. -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg A couple of points. If you have a 5 1/4" bay, you can easily, and cheaply get a mounting kit. Worst case is you have to get a seperate controller card and plug it it to a free pci slot. Most machines do not yet have SATA CD drives, so there should be at least 1 ide controller on the board. HOWEWER, as this dirve is just a backup, might you want to consider making that drive external? I talked to one of the computer sales guys at the local Best Buy. He said that he would not expect to experience a problem with mixing SATA and EIDE on a Compaq with a recent chip set like the SR2050NX. While I wouldn't bet my life on information from a Best Buy sales guy, this did seem reasonable. Since there was a reasonable chance it would work and little risk of harm to my machine, I decided the thing to do was try it. I picked up the 120GB Seagate they had on sale for $50. The box says it's an ST3120026A although Windows XP reports that it is an ST3120814A. I installed the drive in the unused "External" 3.5" location. The only difference from the "Internal" 3.5" location used by the included SATA drive is that the drive sticks forward about 1/2". It still fits behind the cover plate which you would remove for a unit requiring external access like a floppy drive. I used the Cable Select cable included with the drive to connect to the unused IDE1 connector on the RC410-M (Asterope3) Motherboard. (The CD/DVD unit was on the cable connected to the IDE2 connector.) I used the middle connector which made it the slave. The machine booted without any issues. I used Windows to init and format the drive. Everthing looks fine. I checked the BIOS boot order which was Floppy, DVD, Hard Drive, and Network. The new drive is after the SATA drive. I was able to boot my Acronis CD and use its "Safe Version" to backup my the original SATA drive to a file on the new drive. The Acronis True Image 9.0 Home "Full Version" seems to have some problems with the SATA drive. It takes a very long time to load the software and and it also takes a very long time to find the drive. Everything went normally using the "Safe Version". (Since the "Safe Version" does not have USB support, I would expect problems with an external drive. Hopefully the SATA issues are fixed in the recently released version 10.0.) The Windows version of Acronis was able to Mount the partition images contained in the backup file, and they look fine. -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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