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Originally Posted by sfsilicon
Could the second controller be related to the CF card? I don't have a CF card installed so that might be why it is not showing up. From what I recall the CF controller is also from Ricoh.
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Yes.. the secondary IDE controller might be related to the CF card. I disable mine in bios yet the controller still it appears in the device manager.
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Originally Posted by sfsilicon
If there are bios options for booting off slave, why not connect the optical caddy drive as slave and boot from it? Just trying to clarify. You might be giving me all possible options, but I'm looking for the simplest configuration where I keep both drives in permanently and boot off the caddy drive.
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You are correct. Simplest is to jumper the optical bay caddy as slave, exactly as the optical drive is and set boot menu to boot of "Optical Disk Drive" (this is slave). Works fine with the newmodeus sata-to-pata caddy since it's master/slave jumperable. Only reason you might want the optical bay caddy to run as master is for full performance. Running a SSD in caddy as slave *might* give lower performance than if running the caddy as master.
Whichever caddy you go, I'd be interested in knowing the performance you get with the Indilinx SATA SSD (OCZ Vertex/G.Skill Falcon). Might be worth replicating your config. I'd be curious if you acquired the ebay caddy, just as a comparison point. The ebay caddy is unproven by a
credible 2510P owner as yet and doesn't have a slave jumper. Though pin47 CSEL *might* be able to be isolated to set it as slave, depending on if the sata-to-pata chip reads that pin to configure itself. By credible I mean a forum member that doesn't just appear, show pics of the caddy and a 2510P, make claims it doesn't work, then disappear again, or add similar comments to the
6510b caddy thread, adding a
$ystem upgrade bia$ to mix.