Questions about HDDs and Asus P4C800 delux

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Hi,

My questions are:

How many SATA drives can be connected to each SATA port?

If I have 2 SATA drives connected to the 2 SATA ports [ie 1 to each
port] can I still use PATA drives [HDD or CD] connected to the 2 x IDE
connectors?

******************************************************

I have an ASUS P4C800 deluxe running Windows XP SP 2 and 4 x SCSI
drives [2 x 9Gb and 2 x 16 Gb].
One of the SCSI drives is beginning to give write errors and I feel
that a move to ATA drives would be the right thing to do because of
what I see as the big price advantage in terms of cost/Gb.

The P4C800 deluxe has 2 x IDE connectors so I assume that 4 HDDs can
be connected. However the P4C800 deluxe also has 2 x SATA connectors.
I am not clear how many HDDs can be connected or in what formation.

Thanks

 

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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:48:08 +0100, No Spam <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My questions are:
>
>How many SATA drives can be connected to each SATA port?
>
>If I have 2 SATA drives connected to the 2 SATA ports [ie 1 to each
>port] can I still use PATA drives [HDD or CD] connected to the 2 x IDE
>connectors?
>
>******************************************************
>
>I have an ASUS P4C800 deluxe running Windows XP SP 2 and 4 x SCSI
>drives [2 x 9Gb and 2 x 16 Gb].
>One of the SCSI drives is beginning to give write errors and I feel
>that a move to ATA drives would be the right thing to do because of
>what I see as the big price advantage in terms of cost/Gb.
>
>The P4C800 deluxe has 2 x IDE connectors so I assume that 4 HDDs can
>be connected. However the P4C800 deluxe also has 2 x SATA connectors.
>I am not clear how many HDDs can be connected or in what formation.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
One drive per SATA port. The P4C800 Deluxe can support 10 hard drives
if all ports are used.
Primary IDE port (Master + Slave)= 2
Secondary IDE port (Master + Slave)=2
SATA1=1
SATA2=1
SATA_RAID1=1
SATA_RAID2=1
PRI_RAID=2

 

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Maximum of One SATA drive per SATA port.

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DaveW



"No Spam" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:t6mvl05aj2mjrcovh6c07r5445moa0h2dj@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> My questions are:
>
> How many SATA drives can be connected to each SATA port?
>
> If I have 2 SATA drives connected to the 2 SATA ports [ie 1 to each
> port] can I still use PATA drives [HDD or CD] connected to the 2 x IDE
> connectors?
>
> ******************************************************
>
> I have an ASUS P4C800 deluxe running Windows XP SP 2 and 4 x SCSI
> drives [2 x 9Gb and 2 x 16 Gb].
> One of the SCSI drives is beginning to give write errors and I feel
> that a move to ATA drives would be the right thing to do because of
> what I see as the big price advantage in terms of cost/Gb.
>
> The P4C800 deluxe has 2 x IDE connectors so I assume that 4 HDDs can
> be connected. However the P4C800 deluxe also has 2 x SATA connectors.
> I am not clear how many HDDs can be connected or in what formation.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>