Scott L

Question about SATA + IDE Harddrives

I'm craving more space again. I have 2 hd's and 1 disc drive on the IDE channels, leaving 1 open. Rather than getting a cable that will reach can I just go SATA on top of the two existing IDE HDs?

Motherboard is an Asus with the i865PE chipset.

JamesMH

Is this the one you have?
http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4P800&langs=09 , or the deluxe version.

It looks like you can.
2 x UltraDMA 100/66/33
2 x Serial ATA, RAID 0 (Microsoft WinXP only)

Take a look in your bios too.

I have a Abit IC7-G board, I only have one SATA Hitachi 160GB drive, plus a DVD writer on IDE1 and a CDROM on IDE2. Similar to what you want to do.

Tekara

Yes the SATA ports use their own controller so you'll be able to use the IDE ports in conjuntion with the SATA ports.

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MikeH

Does the SATA need to be the master? I'm not in the mood to wipe and reinstall everything right now.

Thanks,

Mike

Patrick Sun

No, your motherboard's BIOS settings should allow you to specify the primary boot-up device.

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