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From: "Joseph Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:32 AM
Subject: SATA Question
Is it possible to use both IDE and SATA at the same time?
I don't have a SATA HD at this time and would like to know if it is ok to
leave
the SATA enabled or should it be disabled?
I do a lot of hooking and unhooking hard drives, SATA and IDE. When running
both, IDE always is listed as the first drive, the one the computer tries to
boot to unless you change the boot order in the BIOS. My point is that you
can run on a SATA drive as your only drive for a long time. Once you hook in
a IDE drive, it grabs the listing as the first drive. If you want the SATA
drive to still be the first drive, you have to reset the order of the drives
in the BIOS. Then you have to check the boot order of bootable devices to
make sure this is set to your preferences.
I run with a SATA and a IDE drive lots of times. Once I set the BIOS like I
want it, I do not have to reset it, as long as both drives are hooked up.
Once I have unhooked the IDE drive and hook it back up, I have to move it to
2nd place again.
Note that you have to deal with two areas in the BIOS.
1. The priority order of all hard drives. (This is not the boot order, but
often you choose to boot to the first drive in priority)
2. The boot order of all bootable devices including (but not limited to) all
hard drives.
My comments are my findings with Asus motherboards,
Chuck
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