Connecting Serial ATA and IDE hard drives

[LehighBri]

I currently have a Serial ATA drive and an IDE ATA 133 hard drive. I want the Serial ATA drive to be my C: boot drive and the IDE drive to be my D: drive. How would I go about hooking that up, or is it a bios setting. Would I also connect the IDE drive as master? Thanks!

 

[CurtCold]

Make the (serial ata) C: drive your primary master, on the 1st Eide channel, then the 133 drive a secondary master. Your bios should auto detect this, if you set the jumpers right on the back of the Hardrives. Serial, and 133 should both be set to the master position.

You can use your CD roms for slaves off both drives. I try to hook up CD drives opposite of each other like I just explained so that when I copy from CD to CD I dont' get interferrece with both being on one IDE channel.

Also the Serial ATA will prolly have to have an adapter for EIDE.

Hope that helps

 

[Trashman]

Depends if were talking a new system build or your adding that SATA drive to a current system....if it's a new build then all ya need to do is change BIOS setting to boot SATA first, in your boot options, your IDE should be fine as is.
But if were talking upgrading your current system, then you'll have to add SATA drive make sure drive is recognized by both BIOS and windows, then you'll need to Ghost the image of your IDE drive on to the SATA drive, check out the website of the manufacturer of your new drive for a utility that can do that for ya, unless you have Ghost or Drive Image, it'll show how ya goes about it. After ghosting image onto new drive then go back in BIOS and set boot option to boot SATA first.
If your using a PCI SATA controller than you'll probably wanna set your boot options to boot SCSI first, since a controller card is looked as a SCSI card in BIOS.
Not sure what your situation is, you didn't leave enough detail on what "you" wanna do....so i hope that helps.

 

[LehighBri]

Thanks trashman. I'm actually building a new system with a motherboard that has both Serial ATA and IDE 133 connections. So I guess the bios settings would be the easiest.

Thanks and any more comments would be great!