Dude, they have totally different cables.  They run off different
controllers.  You can add the IDE drive if you have an IDE controller in
the box (my mobo has both).

If you want to boot from it, you'll probably have to change the boot
order in the BIOS.

--Ben

Raymond Camden wrote:
> On my old PC, a few months ago, I added a new IDE drive to the box. I
> set it in 'choose' mode I think, which meant it would notice that it
> needed to be a slave and would set itself as such.
> 
> On my new box my primary drive is a SATA drive. Is it safe to assume I
> can't slave the IDE drive to it? If so - what is the proper way to add
> it? Or should I take the easy way out and move the drive to a case I
> have the transforms internal drives to external usb 2 drives?


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