Gigabyte Mobo has 2 SATA Connections... need help in configuring

[dvdman3]

This motherboard has 2 SATA Connections. If you connect the main drive - A ATA133 adapter to SATA and go into DOS to format your drive.. will Fdisk show the drives to allow you to format, create partitions, etc in Fdisk or must I put it into a regular ATA 133 connection and once Fdisk and everything else is done then I connect the STAT connection to the main drive and install Win2k or XP then.. which is which ? Is Serial ATA at least a little faster than ATA 133 or ATA 100 ???

 

[Storm]

You should be able to Fdisk when you connect your harddrive to the SATA Connection. I think this generation of SATA should be around 150 megs or maybe it was 130. I'm not totally sure.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: dvdman3
This motherboard has 2 SATA Connections. If you connect the main drive - A ATA133 adapter to SATA and go into DOS to format your drive.. will Fdisk show the drives to allow you to format, create partitions, etc in Fdisk or must I put it into a regular ATA 133 connection and once Fdisk and everything else is done then I connect the STAT connection to the main drive and install Win2k or XP then.. which is which ? Is Serial ATA at least a little faster than ATA 133 or ATA 100 ???

Actually, the few reviews/previews I've seen state just the oppisite. The one SATA drive out there (seagate?) is slower then the fastest IDE drives. They did however, say they run way cooler and quieter. But if you're expecting faster transfer rates, you'll be waiting for SATA-2 drives, which hit in 2005. Unless... other companies put out SATA drives and they are faster. But, I think at most it would be nothing but a slight speed increase (if even that)

I was suprised. With all the hype I had heard over the past 12 months, I thought SATA was gonna hit and be even faster then Scsi, guess I was wrong


let me state this (I just re-read your message) I have NO idea about speeds if you hook a IDE drive up to a SATA connector with a adapter. I would imagine it would have no real effect. but I don't know 100% *shrug*