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snowmanman   12-10-2007 at 03:24:43 AM

I need some help. I just ordered my new pc and I picked out an IDE DVD writer for it. I just now found out that your supposed to have your DVD drive and your hard drive on the same interface. The hard drive I ordered is a SATA. So, do you think I will run into any problems when installing these drives?

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dashelj   12-10-2007 at 03:46:36 AM
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I have never heard of having your hard drive and DVD writer on the same interface. I have my two DVD writers on one IDE cable and both my hard drives are SATA and I have never ran into problems.

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amnotanoobie   12-10-2007 at 06:37:51 AM
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snowmanman wrote :

Here's where I read it at. http://www.tigerdirect.com/static/ [...] rives.html



I don't see where it says that you need to have a similar interface with the writer and hdisk. I also have a PC with a SATA hdisk, and a DVD burner + DVDRom on the IDE. There is no problem.

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4745454b   12-10-2007 at 07:06:21 AM
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You will have no problems with this. If you have a problem, it will be with the SATA drive. Windows can not use SATA drives natively. You will need to either hit f6 and supply the SATA drivers, or map the SATA ports to the IDE ports. (as I understand it, most motherboards ship with this happing in the bios by default, mine did.) There are no problems with the Optical drive on the IDE bus and the harddrive on the SATA bus.

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Zorg   12-10-2007 at 07:07:45 AM
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This is all I saw.

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If possible, each drive should sit on its own IDE channel configured as a master drive. If you have two drives on one channel always make the faster drive the master drive.

A SATA HD and a PATA DVD is fine. If you were buying a new DVD why would you buy a PATA one anyway. Sooner or later there won't be any PATA ports on the mobos and you will be stuck with a useless DVD.

 

If it is in there and I missed it I call BS.


Message edited by Zorg on 12-10-2007 at 07:11:45 AM
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