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Using SATA with PATA?

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parker0522

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Just built my new rig and forgot that my old hdd was IDE. Can I have it installed even though I have 74gig raptor SATA in there. If so, can I still use it as a slave just to pull some files off of it?
 
ASUS A8N-Premuim
Opteron 165 stock
Antec Smartpower 500w
Evga 7900gto
OCZ 184-pin 2-3-2-5 2gigs
74gig raptor 8mb cache
Sony DRU810A 16x DVD drive

My old hdd is a WD Caviar SE 120gig 16mb cache
 
I have an older Asus mobo than you and I use both SATA and PATA, however I boot off the PATA so I can't answer your second question.
 
Originally posted by: Bobthelost
Yes you can. There is no reason you can't use both at the same time.
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Agreed. Just be sure to jumper your IDE HD for whatever it is; master or slave. Also be sure to set your BOOT DEVICE in the bios to the SATA drive.
 
If the IDE hdd has windows xp on it, can i still set it as slave just so I can pull some files off of it. I will probably bull the files off of it and then reformat it without windows.
 
set it to slave if you have another IDE device as master.... I don't understand what you're confused about here. SATA/PATA can coexist. They don't interfere with one another, you could have a SATA, PATA, SAS, SCSI all in the same machine and they wouldn't interfere.....

kthxbai
 
There is no master/slave jumpers to SATAs, and since you only have one IDE, make it master. If you set it to slave, you may have a problerm with the bios looking for the missing master and delaying the boot.
 
I would highly recommend that you remove the power from your 2nd drive before you do anything.There are two reasons.
A) Windows install might pick the wrong drive, this especially happens with SATA drives.
B) windows frequently decides on it's own lettering, usually happens with mixed SATA and PATA drives.

We must get at least 7 posts a week for both problems that are easily prevented.
 
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