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bxg   11-29-2006 at 06:41:51 PM

Howdy,

I have heard of issues with motherboards claiming to support both SATA and older ATA drives. Specifically, I have heard that some motherboards will only boot from an ATA drive if both types are present. Is this a common problem?

I am planning to build a new system (my first) and want the boot drive to be an SATA, but also want to reuse some of my existing ATA drives for archival purposes, and my DVD drives are also ATA.

Anyone have recomendations for mid-level mobos that will work in this way? (I don't need much - not a serious gamer, so proabably an ATX that will support the c2d 6300 or 6400, 2-4 G of RAM, basic graphics card, etc)

thanks!

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sruane   11-29-2006 at 07:08:29 PM
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You set hard disk boot priority in the BIOS, regardless of drive type.

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bxg   11-29-2006 at 07:23:22 PM
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True, but when a friend did this, his machine was unable to boot when both types of drives were onboard, and BIOS was set to boot from SATA. It would boot fine when ony ATA or only SATA drives were onboard.

He is technically savvy and had researched and found similar problems with a couple of other motherboards

I was just trying to find folks that have sucsessfully onbarded both types of drives, booting from the SATA

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sruane   11-29-2006 at 08:26:10 PM
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I have four SATA drives in a a Matrix raid (Raid 5 + Raid 0) and and IDE drive (five drives total) and I boot off the raid 5 partition (SATA) just fine.

But, I had to prioritize my drives in the BIOS.

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