My external hard drive doesn’t work. I am thinking on taking it out of the case and adding it to my desktop mainframe. In order to do this I need a SCSI cable to hold both hard drives.
1.What should I look out for when removing an external hard drive out of the case?
2.Are all SCSI cables the same? If not, what SCSI cable I should purchase?
3.Once I remove the HD from the case, should I change the bios to slave?
I am wondering if it will automatically go to slave once I add it to the SCSI cable
This is the first time I done something like this
4.Am I missing a step?
5.Please let me know if I am missing something.
6. is this a good idea?
Are you sure you have a SCSI hard drive/enclosure? Maybe it's just USB/Firewire? SCSI cables are different, I don't remember exactly but I think there are about 5 varieties. You connect your SCSI hard drive via internal cable to your SCSI controller. Usually system's BIOS doesn't control SCSI drives, and there are no Slave/Master config. You are thinking about IDE. SCSI can have many drives on the same cable (7 or more), while IDE can have 2 (master/slave). You will need to set a SCSI ID on your hard drive and then some controllers requre you terminate last drive on the chain.
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