SATA + PATA?!

[Malladine]

I'd like to fit a new sata into my upgrade, but still keep my pata as a slave drive for extra storage. Can I just plug the pata jumper into the slave pins and it's a done deal?

 

[Juno]

yes you can. i've done before.

right, just put the jumper into slave mode.

 

[Malladine]

awesome thanks

 

[Aluvus]

Yes, you can have both.

If you change the drive's jumper settings, do remember to move it to the middle connector on the cable. Depending on your motherboard, you may not need to fiddle with jumpers at all; some will by default attempt to boot to SATA devices first (or can be convinced to do so in the BIOS).

 

[obeseotron]

You don't have to set anything to slave that isn't already set to slave when you install a SATA drive. If your PATA drive is the master on its channel now, it will still be a master after the upgrade.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: obeseotron
You don't have to set anything to slave that isn't already set to slave when you install a SATA drive. If your PATA drive is the master on its channel now, it will still be a master after the upgrade.

That is what I thought too... The PATA drive shouldn't need to be changed.

Now, if you want to BOOT to the new SATA drive you will have to make a change in the BIOS.