Drive upgrade.

Okay guys,

I've just managed to liberate a 40 Gig drive, my main player Barry has a 40 and a 20 at the moment. I want to replace the 20 with my new disk.

The kicker is, I want to do this without having to take all my music off and back on to the unit. Also, the 20 is the main drive. Could I get away with building the 40 then copying the FIDs across from the 20. Reattaching the old 40 and rebuilding the database?

just to re-cap, drive1 is always the drive on the left (slave position)?

The kicker is, I want to do this without having to take all my music off and back on to the unit.

The drive upgrade guide has specific instructions on how to handle this. Have a careful read through the drive upgrade guide and you'll see where it's covered.

Could I get away with building the 40 then copying the FIDs across from the 20. Reattaching the old 40 and rebuilding the database?

That's essentially what you'd end up doing, yes. It's all covered in the upgrade guide.

And to answer your question about which one is which... The primary and secondary drives are determined by jumpers on the drives themselves, not by their position on the cable. So whichever one has the jumper is the secondary drive.

The kicker is, I want to do this without having to take all my music off and back on to the unit. Also, the 20 is the main drive. Could I get away with building the 40 then copying the FIDs across from the 20. Reattaching the old 40 and rebuilding the database?

Yes, that should work. I did it this way when I replaced both my 30gigs with one 80gig. Just be sure that the disk builder does it's job correctly. Sometimes it doesn't create all the necessary partitions. This can be solved by running the disk builder a second and maybe even third time on the same disk. The be sure it's OK, I would recommend building the disk 3 times.

The slave disk is indeed normally the one on the left, but it doesn't have to be. It's easier to identify the slave drive by looking if it has a jumper on it : the master disk does not have a jumper.

damn! Beaten by one minute...

thanks guys, for some reason I had cable-select in my mind when I posted the second time. So my question would have been more accurate if I'd have asked 'is the slave drive always drive1?'

So my question would have been more accurate if I'd have asked 'is the slave drive always drive1?'

To which the answer is Yes.