Darrell Klein wrote:

I know this may not be the most computer-focused forum to ask, but
since many r.a.p.ers are musicians-turned recordists who then needed
to become computer savy (as I did): how much of a pain is it to
install a second hard drive?

How much pain does opening the case and plugging in a drive to the (
hopefully ) pre-exisitng wiring feel like ?

Just make sure it's set to be a slave ( set the jumpers ) assuming both
the IDE channels in your PC already have master drives on them ( normally
System disk and CD-ROM ).

You'll need to let the BIOS detect the drive. That's normally a case of
pressing the DEL key whilst booting - got to 'standard ? cmos settings'
and the Bios will usually have an auto-detect feature. Check your
motherboard manual.


And after installation, what problems may
surface?

You may have to format the drive. Otherwise none.

Any experiences to share? Thanks.

Don't even start. I've had dozens of SCSI drives hanging off video editing
kit. They normally work fine. Mixing the various 'flavours' of SCSI can
catch out the unwary though.


Graham