Can you mix Serial ATA /IDE Drives ??

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That depends. WHAT motherboard are you using?

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DaveW



"Malam" <malamilia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I currently have a 80G IDE Maxtor Drive as my Slave drive. I would
> like to buy a 200G Serial ATA150 Drive. Which is the best way to hook
> up the drives. Here is the setup now:
>
> Board - P4C800E Deluxe
>
> Primary Master - Maxtor IDE 80G
> Primary Slave - Maxtor IDE 80G
>
> Secondary Master - DVD Writer Plextor
> Secondary Slave - DVD Reader
>
> Would like to install a 200G Maxtor Serial ATA 150 Drive.
> Can the Serial ATA be the Boot Drive ?
> What's the best trouble free set-up ?
>
> Thanks.

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That board has both SATA and IDE controllers so yes you can
"Malam" <malamilia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Motherboard is Asus P4C800E Deluxe
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:10:39 -0700, "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>
>>That depends. WHAT motherboard are you using?
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Thanks for your help guys.

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:04:45 GMT, "Andre LaFramboise"
<razz@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>not a problem I have 2 sata in raid 0 and a ide on the promise controller
>for backup,and three dvdrw and or cdrw on the other 2 ides all running fine
>.
>"RBM" <rbm2(remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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>> That board has both SATA and IDE controllers so yes you can
>> "Malam" <malamilia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:7bg5719jsh0n7jmvnpo98mkgd424vrvhmm@4ax.com...
>> > Motherboard is Asus P4C800E Deluxe
>> >
>> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:10:39 -0700, "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>That depends. WHAT motherboard are you using?
>> >
>>
>>
>