Kinda depends don't it? You haven't divulged the SATA needed configuration
in the bios for recognition of SATA hard drives. Nor, the bios boot order
of hard disks available. Ken's good, but he's not psychic.
In all cases, I've seen, you can make the SATA hard drive the boot drive.
How to get there depends on your bios, and, whether early SATA, or more
current SATA bios/SATA drive capable. Yes, the ide drives can be caused to
take the "back seat". Slave designation is not accurate if both on the same
ide connector.
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Dave
"Dan Conrad" <dconrad@hsc.vcu.edu> wrote in message
news:OzE5SxmTIHA.6060@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Yes -- that is what I wanted to know -- and in bios I can identify which
> is to be the boot disk? Sorry my question was confusing -- I have hooked
> up master/slave -- but my confusion relates to how I tell system which is
> the primary boot disk when using sata and ide hookups. Again with the
> ide -- the system uses the primary ide and master disk on this -- if sata
> is there as well was not sure how to handle. Thanks.
>
> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:33:32 -0500, Dan Conrad <dconrad@hsc.vcu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am installing a new motherboard and planned to use a single sata HD --
>>> can I have IDE drives as slaves? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> No. You are apparently unaware of what the term "slave" means when
>> referring to hard drives.
>>
>> On one IDE channel you can normally connect two hard on a single IDE
>> cable. Normally one of those drives is called the master and the other
>> called the slave.
>>
>> SATA doesn't use the master/slave relationship, and even if it did,
>> you couldn't connect an IDE drive to a SATA connector.
>>
>> However, my guess that what you really want to know is can you install
>> both SATA and PATA (IDE) drives on a single motherboard. The answer to
>> that question is yes.
>>