Using ABIT Serillel2

[LAVAB84615]

i have an nf7-s r.2 and i was thinking about using 2 ABIT Serillel2 connectors with my ide drives if only for less cable mess.

whats the verdict on these? are they reliable or is there a better chance that they will just mess up my harddrives?

 

[ViRGE]

I'm using one with a KV8 without issue.

 

[chocoruacal]

I've got two IDE drives on them, no problems. Its a nice feature...being able to get a drive onto its own channel.

 

[WebDude]

Used 2 with 2 drives in a raid array. No problems at all.

 

[Manzelle]

Can optical drivers be used with it?

 

[LAVAB84615]

yah the new serielle2 ones provide support for optical drives as well as hard drives...

are there any special things that i have to do when i change from ide to sata? i.e: downloading special drivers or doing something to the drives...

 

[Davegod]

I'm pretty sure you need SATA drivers when installing XP from fresh (stick the floppy in when it asks for SCSI/raid drivers iirc), but i think if you already have xp sp1 installed you should be ok. until next format anyway, but i'm sure ive seen guides to slipstream sata drivers onto the xp cd, and that might not even be necessary if you've slipstreamed sp2.

sorry thats not exactly confident info, but maybe at least some pointers?

 

[Goi]

I used 2 Serillel2 adapters when I had my Abit IS7-E on 2 IDE HDDs, things were fine then, but setup isn't as intuitive as regular IDE.

 

[LAVAB84615]

so you could just plug them in and everything should be fine?

 

[ViRGE]

Yes.

 

[WebDude]

Originally posted by: LAVAB84615
so you could just plug them in and everything should be fine?

If you're working off a current install, and want to switch from IDE to SATA, just make sure your currently installed windows has recognized the existing SATA controller before you do the switch (in other words the SATA controller drivers are already loaded). Then you should be good to go.