1 pata drive and 1 sata drive

[Dragoon42]

I tried doing a search and could only find mixing sata in raid or pata in raids. Maybe my search skills just suck, but is it possible to make one drive the main drive that boots and the other for storage?

I have a pata drive right now, but I wanna buy a sata drive. I still wanna keep em both though.

I have an a7n8x-e board.

 

[imported_rod]

As long as that MoBo supports SATA, you 'should' be fine. I think all ASUS board will let you do this. Since you want them configured as JBOD, you can probably just install the drive, format in in widows, and you're set.

Rod

 

[Bobthelost]

Yes thats fine. The A7N8 has SATA support.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Careful, though. For me and all my friends PATA+SATA means windows doesnt want to install on the SATA drive...
Maybe if the bios has a SATA PATA emulator, like my A8R32 -- but havent tried it yet. Very annoying on my old DFI SLI mobo.

 

[Dragoon42]

Originally posted by: gersson
Careful, though. For me and all my friends PATA+SATA means windows doesnt want to install on the PATA drive...
Maybe if the bios has a SATA PATA emulator, like my A8R32 -- but havent tried it yet. Very annoying on my old DFI SLI mobo.

I don't need to install windows, pata is currently my main drive. Just looking to add a 2nd

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: gersson
Careful, though. For me and all my friends PATA+SATA means windows doesnt want to install on the PATA drive...
Maybe if the bios has a SATA PATA emulator, like my A8R32 -- but havent tried it yet. Very annoying on my old DFI SLI mobo.

Dont u mean that i doesnt want to instal on the SATA drive, also some boards have SATA inbuilt like on my dfi ultra d, and some u need to load drivers at install usually using a floppy.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i had both before on my asus p5p800 and it worked flawlessly

 

[Googer]

Mixing differant types of discs in RAID is called JBOD and does not provide any of the benefits of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, etc. The only reason to USE JBOD is so that windows can see one large disc instead of two. Your best bet is to "keep em-separated":music:


If you want to try it I suggest you use a quality bridge board.
http://granitedigital.com/catalog/pg52_satabridgeboards.htm