Re: Concept: Multi-Op Boot switch

Many thanks to you guys.



That was the tech answer I was wondering about. I didn't realize that MB's had that delay for that reason. And parasitic capacitance sounds like what I feared about the concept.

Thank you for your serious assistance. (Both of you.)...

Re: Concept: Multi-Op Boot switch

Thank you both goontron and Th3, you both deserve the "I'm a: Professional Tech" label.

My design was downright dirty, I know..., the lines would be soldered in parallel, very close- side by side, as in the diagram.

I wasn't using a switch for the sata (as the last sentence indicated), relying on straight jumper from all ports, but then only one drive powered at one time... would be sending/receiving data.

The thought being, only one drive could communicate to the sata input on the motherboard....

Re: Concept: Multi-Op Boot switch

Oh, and sure, I could buy a pci card, but there would be no guarantee the bios would decide to boot from it having the only powered drive. (Another "would have to buy to try thing.)

Re: Concept: Multi-Op Boot switch



The boot order would not matter as the boot would see only the ONE drive that was powered up. What I am doing is running XP for one reason, Win7 x86 for another reason, Win7 x64 occasionally because many programs I have don't run on it, and then another drive for screwing around with (such as trying Linux versions) that can be reinstalled when needed.



I don't want to cross access the f'ing drives. Try reading some.



[B]I don't want any other drive being recognized when...

I say "Concept" because I've not seen this before. I made a pic of what I am considering, but I wanted to run it by (hopefully) technical people who would know why this would not work.

The closest thing I could find is by ICY DOCK, but it has 4 SATA ports, or another that has one eSATA port.

I don't want to plug/unplug as my MB seems to only have two Hard Drive ports for booting.
Here's my plan......

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Heya all.
Chino Valley, AZ says hello. Yes, all of them. I spoke to them myself... they wanted to tell you all hello. So... Hello.