How do I make IDE and SATA peacefully co-exist? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

mrquackers · 03-08-2004, 06:53 PM

Hey all,

I'm about 90% done building my dream machine. More Corsair RAM than you could ever need, a P4 2.8 (which I'm hoping to overclock down the road), IC7-MAX3 Mobo and (at present count) three 120 GB HDs and a significantly smaller HD.

Here's my conundrum: I've got two SATA boards and two IDEs. When I check the BIOS, the two SATAs are being seen by the machine as masters, as is one of the IDEs. Do I need to worry about this before installing the OS - or will this take care of itself since they're SATAs?

If not, any ideas on how to make the two work harmoniously together? The SATAs were OEM drives from New Egg, so I'm not sure how to change the jumper setting appropriately.

Thanks!
quackers

yakimushi · 03-08-2004, 06:57 PM

The SATA drives will always be master since they are on their own channels.

The IDE drive is also fine as master, or slave. It doesn't really matter...

As far as the OS is concerned, as long as you have the correct drive selected as your boot drive in the BIOS you'll be fine.

I've got three hard drives in my system, when I'm reformatting or installing windows I'll usually unplug the extra drives just to make sure I'm not screwing around with the wrong one.

Dragonlich · 03-09-2004, 10:07 AM

Ditto. I have four IDE drives and one SATA drive. As far as the motherboard, bios and OS are concerned, I've got 4 IDE ports, even though two of those are SATA.

As for the unplugging during install: I've got two different types of harddisks, so I can simply see the type during install. Only if you have two identical drives do you need to worry about it.

03-08-2004, 06:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
mrquackers Exhausted Location: Northeastern US - please send help!	How do I make IDE and SATA peacefully co-exist? Hey all, I'm about 90% done building my dream machine. More Corsair RAM than you could ever need, a P4 2.8 (which I'm hoping to overclock down the road), IC7-MAX3 Mobo and (at present count) three 120 GB HDs and a significantly smaller HD. Here's my conundrum: I've got two SATA boards and two IDEs. When I check the BIOS, the two SATAs are being seen by the machine as masters, as is one of the IDEs. Do I need to worry about this before installing the OS - or will this take care of itself since they're SATAs? If not, any ideas on how to make the two work harmoniously together? The SATAs were OEM drives from New Egg, so I'm not sure how to change the jumper setting appropriately. Thanks! quackers __________________ "If you're walking on thin ice, you may as well go ahead and dance."

03-08-2004, 06:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
yakimushi Addict	The SATA drives will always be master since they are on their own channels. The IDE drive is also fine as master, or slave. It doesn't really matter... As far as the OS is concerned, as long as you have the correct drive selected as your boot drive in the BIOS you'll be fine. I've got three hard drives in my system, when I'm reformatting or installing windows I'll usually unplug the extra drives just to make sure I'm not screwing around with the wrong one.

03-09-2004, 10:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
Dragonlich 42, baby! Location: The Netherlands	Ditto. I have four IDE drives and one SATA drive. As far as the motherboard, bios and OS are concerned, I've got 4 IDE ports, even though two of those are SATA. As for the unplugging during install: I've got two different types of harddisks, so I can simply see the type during install. Only if you have two identical drives do you need to worry about it.