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yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <monroeia...> wrote:
>
> I have a question about using SATA and IDE hard drives together. I
> have an Asus P4S800D-X motherboard. I have a Seagate 300gb SATA hard
> drive as my main hard drive that I run Windows XP from. I want to add a
> 250gb IDE hard drive. My question is how do I set that up. When I plug
> it into the primary IDE connector on the motherboard windows doesnt
> boot up. How should I have that configured? As a slave? if so whick
> connector on the ribbon cable do I use, master or slave? or do I need
> to use a IDE bus card. I eventually want to add a second SATA hdd and a
> second IDE hard drive. I store and edit alot of old photos and store
> alot of music files. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
When you plugged in the PATA drive, the boot order changed to boot
from that drive first. Set the drive order in your setup. I'd set the
PATA drive as primary, but just change the drive order to the SATA
drive. I've got a p4p800e, and an almost identical drive setup. If you
want the PATA drive for storage, you might want to think about putting
it in a removable drive bay. I've got a 300G SATA, 250G PATA and
2-320G SATA drives in a RAID setup of sorts, so I'm assuming you have
a similar capability. I just keep the 2 parallel drives for storage.
How are your optical drives hooked up?
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