Hard Drive Questions

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Can both an PATA & SATA drive be in the same machine?

Does this depend upon your motherboard?

Is the connector for both drives the same & if no can a SATA be made to
perform like a SATA by say adding a adapter plug?

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Thanks in advance

 

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yes, you can have both, SATA uses a very different cable and
plug.
If the mobo does not have SATA controller/ports you can add
a PCI card.

To get full performance you need a mobo with SATA built-in.


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"The Old Timer" <notathome@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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| Can both an PATA & SATA drive be in the same machine?
|
| Does this depend upon your motherboard?
|
| Is the connector for both drives the same & if no can a
SATA be made to
| perform like a SATA by say adding a adapter plug?
|
| --
| Thanks in advance
|
|

 

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Can both an PATA & SATA drive be in the same machine? - YES, without any
problems. One needs to be wary of configuration issues, which is generally
determined by on-board or plug-in SATA controller.

Does this depend upon your motherboard? NO, a Mobo without SATA can still
have SATA driveswhen they are attached to a PCI plug-in SATA controller.

Is the connector for both drives the same? NO: very different

if no can a SATA be made to perform like a SATA by say adding a adapter
plug. - Not sure that you meat to write it this way. However one doesn't
plug a SATA drive into an ATA controller by way of an adapter - wrong
interface, wrong signals, wrong solution. Why buy a SATA device, if one
wants to get ATA performance, just a waste of money.



"The Old Timer" wrote:

> Can both an PATA & SATA drive be in the same machine?
>
> Does this depend upon your motherboard?
>
> Is the connector for both drives the same & if no can a SATA be made to
> perform like a SATA by say adding a adapter plug?
>
> --
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>