Boot drive - SATA or IDE

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> Hi,
>
> I have now enough parts to put together an Athlon64 3500+ based system on
> a an Asus A8V m/board.
>
> The board has two standard sata connectors as well as two for raid
> configuration.
>
> I have a number of hard drives that I can utilize for this machine. I
> have decided to use two Seagate 160gig drives in a raid 0 configuration.
> These drives will serve as the data drives.
>
> I would like to use a separate drive as a boot drive. I have a Seagate
> IDE 160 gig drive as well as another sata drive, a Seagate 80 gig. Which
> one (sata or ide)would be the best as a boot drive and application drive?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
>
> Shane
>

I have a K8V board and currently use a single SATA drive on the Promise
controller (NO RAID). After the drives are detected (Promise BIOS detection)
it takes about 30+ seconds for it to boot. This doesn't happen when I stick
in and PATA drive and make it the boot drive. It boots instantly after the
drives are detected. I dual boot with GRUB as the boot loader, but I think
it's a hardware problem.

I had a similar problem with the Promise controller on my A7V266-E as RAID0.
It took a long time to decide to boot.

Not that I boot a lot, uptime is in the weeks, but I was just fiddling with
it today (dual booting) and thinking that it might be worth my while to
stick in and old IDE just to boot off of. GRUB only needs the MBR, the rest
of the boot can be on another drive.

So IMHO if you want a fast boot, boot from the PATA (IDE).

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Thanks for the advice.

Shane

> I have a K8V board and currently use a single SATA drive on the Promise
> controller (NO RAID). After the drives are detected (Promise BIOS
> detection) it takes about 30+ seconds for it to boot. This doesn't happen
> when I stick in and PATA drive and make it the boot drive. It boots
> instantly after the drives are detected. I dual boot with GRUB as the boot
> loader, but I think it's a hardware problem.
>
> I had a similar problem with the Promise controller on my A7V266-E as
> RAID0. It took a long time to decide to boot.
>
> Not that I boot a lot, uptime is in the weeks, but I was just fiddling
> with it today (dual booting) and thinking that it might be worth my while
> to stick in and old IDE just to boot off of. GRUB only needs the MBR, the
> rest of the boot can be on another drive.
>
> So IMHO if you want a fast boot, boot from the PATA (IDE).
>
>