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I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive. The
drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.

I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA drives?

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Cletus Stripling wrote:
> I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive.
> The drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.
>
> I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA
> drives?

nope, not this old board. SATA is new thing, way after K7V. Maybe if you get
ectra controller, but i doubt it's worthed. Just get some nice IDE drive
with big cache memory (8m is fine) and 7200 RPM.

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Thanks!

"SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote in message
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> Cletus Stripling wrote:
>> I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive.
>> The drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.
>>
>> I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA
>> drives?
>
> nope, not this old board. SATA is new thing, way after K7V. Maybe if you
> get ectra controller, but i doubt it's worthed. Just get some nice IDE
> drive with big cache memory (8m is fine) and 7200 RPM.
>

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Cletus Stripling wrote:
> Thanks!

Anytime.
BTW...you can overclock this board without any problems by setting FSB from
133 up to max 145 M. I have it on 140M and working excellent, while faster -
since all components are running faster, not just CPU.

>
> "SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote in message
> news:EUcDd.7987$F6.1367032@news.siol.net...
>> Cletus Stripling wrote:
>>> I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive.
>>> The drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.
>>>
>>> I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA
>>> drives?
>>
>> nope, not this old board. SATA is new thing, way after K7V. Maybe if
>> you get ectra controller, but i doubt it's worthed. Just get some
>> nice IDE drive with big cache memory (8m is fine) and 7200 RPM.

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Did you look on the Borad itself and see if there is an SATA connector or 2?
It may also have that in the manual, that can be downloaded from SOYO's
website.....
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variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant.



"Cletus Stripling" <cletus@uga.edu> wrote in message
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>I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive. The
>drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.
>
> I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA drives?
>
>
>

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JamMail wrote:
> Did you look on the Borad itself and see if there is an SATA
> connector or 2? It may also have that in the manual, that can be
> downloaded from SOYO's website.....
>
> "Cletus Stripling" <cletus@uga.edu> wrote in message
> news:344v7vF4604hqU1@individual.net...
>> I have a SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! and have been using an 80 GB IDE drive.
>> The drive has started failing and needs to be replaced.
>>
>> I don't know enough about various drive types. Can it support SATA
>> drives?

PLEASE....on more than 2 years old mobo? SATA itself isn't 2 years old...