IT7 MAXX v2.0 Serial ATA question

[Guest]

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Thanks in advance for any replies.

I have one of the above boards and I currently have four IDE ordinary
parallel ATA133 drives on IDEs 3+4. They're not RAID configured, I'm
just using them as four seperate drives, one bootable for Windows and
the other three for data storage. IDEs 1+2 can be ignored as they're
chock full of optical and Zip drives

I was thinking of buying a couple of larger drives to replace two of
the data drives on IDEs 3+4 and I was wondering if I could mix
Parallel ATA drives with Serial ATA drives on this board?

For example, can have two discs off the masters of IDEs 3+4 and also
use two Serial ATA drives at the same time. Can I boot from a Serial
ATA in this configuration?

Thanks very much !!

 

[TomG]

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if your board is anything like the IC7 and IS7 series boards, you can
certainly mix SATA and PATA drives. in the bios there will be something
along the lines of "boot priority" which can be set to determine the boot
controller. for example, on the IC7 boards, the boot priority can be set to
Add-in device and then right below the boot priority setting is another
setting to set what "add-in device" means, in this case, Onchip SATA would
boot to the Intel ICH5R SATA controller bios.

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"Lord Summerisle" <summerisle@members.v21.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> I have one of the above boards and I currently have four IDE ordinary
> parallel ATA133 drives on IDEs 3+4. They're not RAID configured, I'm
> just using them as four seperate drives, one bootable for Windows and
> the other three for data storage. IDEs 1+2 can be ignored as they're
> chock full of optical and Zip drives
>
> I was thinking of buying a couple of larger drives to replace two of
> the data drives on IDEs 3+4 and I was wondering if I could mix
> Parallel ATA drives with Serial ATA drives on this board?
>
> For example, can have two discs off the masters of IDEs 3+4 and also
> use two Serial ATA drives at the same time. Can I boot from a Serial
> ATA in this configuration?
>
> Thanks very much !!

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Tom,

Just a quick note to say thanks for your help. I decided to go for it
and I've now got 2xSATA and 2xIDE hard drives running quite happily
together. The system boots from the SATA quite happily.

Regards
Summerisle