Jumper Settings: RAID-1 Array With Slave

[jestorton]

I’m building a computer (first time). I’ll have two Western Digital SATA hard drives in a RAID-1 array. My current computer has a Western Digital EIDE hard drive. Once I get the new computer built, I plan to temporarily put my old hard drive in the system (using an IDE to SATA converter) as a slave drive in order to transfer data and whatever programs I can to the new system. That'll work, right?

If so:

I'm thinking I need to set a jumper to the "slave" position on the old drive, and no jumpers needed on the RAID-1 drives. Am I right?

(One-word answers beginning with "Y" would be greatly appreciated. 😉 )

 

[JaredDM]

No (sorry, Yes would have been the wrong answer).

SATA doesn't require any master/slave jumpering. And making it slave would only ever apply even to an IDE drive if you have another drive on the same ribbon. You'll need to keep it jumpered as master or the IDE to SATA adapter is unlikely to even recognize it. Keep in mind the whole master/slave thing only had to do with the ribbon, not the system as a whole.

 

[jestorton]

Hey, sorry it took me so long to respond. I thought I'd get an email when I got an answer.

Anyway, thank you for the good info! "No" isn't a bad answer at all, after all...The thing is: It'll work! (Just not with the jumper on slave.)
I was wondering if it would work, while assuming an incorrect idea about the jumper.

"Keep in mind the whole master/slave thing only had to do with the ribbon, not the system as a whole."
That's where I had it wrong. I thought it was the system.