SATA & ATA mix and match?

jonmac · Rated PG Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 1 Location: UK

My PC has a 160GB H/D plugged into a SATA sockrt on M/B.
I have a spare H/D ATA133 which I wud like to use as a secondary drive. Can I use the vacant IDE1 socket on M/B ? and what drive config do I use (master/slave). My IDE2 is used with DVD-ROM/DVD-RW. TNX fer lukin' Jonmac.

Spire · Posted: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:46:39 Post Subject:

Sure can, just plug it in and go...

There is nothing different about the IDE ports on a motherboard with SATA and one without.

There is no interaction between the SATA and IDE. Go ahead and use Master.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:10:40 Post Subject:

What he said

Prime2515102 · Rated PG Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

You'll most likely need to set the boot order in the BIOS. If it's set to Hard Drive 0 and you plug that IDE drive in, it'll try to boot from that one first.

Prime

vulcan · Posted: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:35:04 Post Subject:

i'm running two ide drives and an sata, no problem