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ShdwDmn   10-19-2006 at 11:40:23 PM

Ok, my question is pretty straight foward, if a mother board has both Serial ATA and Parallel ATA, can you use them both? or is it limited to using one or the other?

I appreciate anyones help

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SEALBoy   10-19-2006 at 11:53:17 PM
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Yes they both can be used. SATA is one drive per port, so the number of SATA drives you can have = number of SATA ports. PATA can have up to two drives per port.

To the best of my knowledge, they can both be used simultaneously.

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