Sorry another query now about Harddrives [resolved]

[Oliver1]

Anyone know how easy hard it would be to put an additional hard drive into a dell server. Have read a bit. Seems straight forward but I got the the dell website and I have a choice betwwen 1 in 80pin or 1 in 40 pin. What's the diffrence.
Then all i have to do is just plug it in, set it as the slave, boot up the server and format and partition the new drive.
Anyone let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks

[NoteMe]

You are not missing any thing. Not sure about the 40 or 80 pin though. But in windoes you can use the dismanager to do the rest. At least if it your second HDD, if it is your third or more, then it is getting more complicated.


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[Dave Sell]

Then all i have to do is just plug it in, set it as the slave, boot up the server and format and partition the new drive.
Anyone let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks

Well, sometimes you have to set the original drive to Master with Slave before the 2 drives will work together. Sometimes the original drive is set to Cable Select (CS), which will not work with another drive set to Slave. You may have to set the new drive to Cable Select in that case. If the original drive is set to Cable Select, and you want to change it to be Master, or Master with Slave, the BIOS or Operating System may evaluate the size of the drive differently, causing disk read/write errors.

[Ideas Man]

Before you purchase any drives, find out which interface your server uses. Whether it's an IDE based RAID or SCSI. The two types are incompatible, hence the 40-80 pins. IDE drives typically have 40 pins and SCSI have 80. After you have determined which type your server uses, the instructions to set them up are different. With SCSI, you need to set jumpers to identify the drive in the sequence and all this other extra stuff. Otherwise, you should be able to follow what the others have already posted.

Always, when in doubt, check your manuals. Believe it or not, that's what they're there for, they tell you what you need and how to do it.

[Oliver1]

Thanks, the persons whoes hard drive I was going to replace has backed out now, and is getting a professional to do it, phweeps. I obviosly didn't inspire him with confidence!