Will this IDE & SATA setup work on my system???

[Detoyminador_]

This is what I've got:

SATA WD 74Gb Raptor HD
IDE WD 40Gb 7200rpm HD
IDE IBM 40Gb 7200rpm HD
IDE 56x CD-ROM optical drive
IDE DVD player/CD-RW optical drive
IDE DVD-+/RW optical drive
Motherboard that can support only 4 IDE devices
Promise PCI SATA 150 TX2plus

What I want to do is run my SATA Raptor drive as my system boot up C: drive running of my controller card & also attach my 2 other IDE Hard-Drives to the controller card as well.

Then I'd like to attach my 56x CD-Rom to the primary IDE controller on the mother-board and the other 2 optical drives I have on my Secondary IDE controller on the mother-board.

Will this setup work fine on my system? Is it just a matter of using FDISK and re-partitioning all 3 hard-drives? Will my SATA Raptor be recognised under DOS and boot my operating system?

 

[Zelmo3]

Depends on your motherboard. I could not for the life of me get my NF7 to boot from my SATA card (same as you have), no matter what I set the boot options to. It's supposed to work if you have the BIOS boot SCSI first, but it didn't work for me.
Give it a try, and if it doesn't work you can put one of the IDE drives back on the mobo's controller and boot from that. Note that if you go that route, you can still install your OS to the Raptor and just put the boot files on the IDE (Windows will automatically write its boot files to the primary IDE if you install to the Raptor, for Linux you can make a /boot partition on the primary IDE and put the rest wherever you want it).

 

[1sikbITCH]

I just set up my Asus A7V8X E-Deluxe, booting to a 160GB SATA drive. Once I loaded windows, in the bios boot order I made sure I had no IDE devices listed (SCSI, Floppy, then CDROM). I then attached my 80GB IDE drive which is full of movies.

It boots to the SATA drive and I can access the IDE drive no problem.

Of course my board has onboard SATA, so your mileage may vary with a card.

 

[Detoyminador_]

My bios options on my asus m/b are:

1: Removable Device (legacy floppy)
2: IDE Hard Drive (SO I SHOULD DISABLE THIS)?
3: ATAPI CD-ROM
4: Other Boot Devices (SCSI Boot Device, I SHOULD ENABLE THIS YES)?

 

[Trashman]

yeah....disable #2 and enable #4