hard drives

[Elimist]

can you mix sata and regular ide harddrives in the same comp?

 

[pat]

no.. absolutly not!

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[pat]

An I still wonder why mobo makers keep putting IDE and SATA connector on the same motherboard.. I keep wonder how peoples can install OS on SATA HDD with IDE optical drives..

Seriously...

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[Crashman]

Pat's making fun of you, you can have any combination of drives you choose.

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[davemar14]

I find it a problem. When I go to install Windows. Setup reconizes my 80GB IDE hard drive as the first drive (C and my SATA RAID array of Raptors as the secondary drives (D So when I install I have to disconnect my 80GB so Windows installs C: on the Raptors. After Windows is installed I plug the 80GB back in. A pain.

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[Crashman]

My BIOS orders the drives so windows detects SATA1 or IDE1 first, depending on which is set as bootable in BIOS.

But I have other means to other ends, such as disabling one of the IDE controllers in BIOS, so that I don't have to climb inside the box.

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[Mr_Nuke]

I keep wonder how peoples can install OS on SATA HDD with IDE optical drives..

They now make SATA optical drives.

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[endyen]

You have to look up, it's only on the really high priced units.

 

[endyen]

Not only can you mix drives on the same putr, you can set up raids using different format hdds.