I need to add another hard drive to my son's computer. He has an A7N8X
Deluxe. I had orginally built it using a 200 GB SATA drive. Later I added
a 2nd SATA drive. He's filled them both up so I'm gonna add a regular IDE
(250 GB) drive to add more storage. Is there anything unusual to worry
about if adding a IDE drive to the mix? I have read posts before but never
paid attention to them. Just wondering if the how the computer deals with
adding a PATA drive to one already booting from a SATA drive. He also has
two CD drives, one DVD and one burner but I can't remember if those are on
the Primary or Secondary controller. Which brings up a good point, should a
new IDE drive be put on Pri or Sec controller?

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:20:42 -0600, "Jbob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I need to add another hard drive to my son's computer. He has an A7N8X
>Deluxe. I had orginally built it using a 200 GB SATA drive. Later I added
>a 2nd SATA drive. He's filled them both up so I'm gonna add a regular IDE
>(250 GB) drive to add more storage. Is there anything unusual to worry
>about if adding a IDE drive to the mix? I have read posts before but never
>paid attention to them. Just wondering if the how the computer deals with
>adding a PATA drive to one already booting from a SATA drive. He also has
>two CD drives, one DVD and one burner but I can't remember if those are on
>the Primary or Secondary controller. Which brings up a good point, should a
>new IDE drive be put on Pri or Sec controller?
>
I think you should clean up all the dvds he download from the internet
on he's 2 hdd of 250gig... who will fill two 250gig hard disk drive???

"Jbob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I need to add another hard drive to my son's computer. He
> has an A7N8X Deluxe. I had orginally built it using a
> 200 GB SATA drive. Later I added a 2nd SATA drive. He's
> filled them both up so I'm gonna add a regular IDE (250
> GB) drive to add more storage. Is there anything unusual
> to worry about if adding a IDE drive to the mix? I have
> read posts before but never paid attention to them. Just
> wondering if the how the computer deals with adding a
> PATA drive to one already booting from a SATA drive. He
> also has two CD drives, one DVD and one burner but I
> can't remember if those are on the Primary or Secondary
> controller. Which brings up a good point, should a new
> IDE drive be put on Pri or Sec controller?

Hi,

Just add the PATA disk as a master/single on the prim.

put the two opticals on the sec.



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"DDC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:20:42 -0600, "Jbob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I think you should clean up all the dvds he download from the internet
> on he's 2 hdd of 250gig... who will fill two 250gig hard disk drive???
>
>

Actually mostly stupid Anime movies and music which he doesn't share. NO
DVD movies downloaded.

The new IDE drive should be alone on the Primary IDE channel. The optical
drives share the Secondary IDE channel.

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"Jbob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E_Wdnb8t88TdIAneRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I need to add another hard drive to my son's computer. He has an A7N8X
>Deluxe. I had orginally built it using a 200 GB SATA drive. Later I added
>a 2nd SATA drive. He's filled them both up so I'm gonna add a regular IDE
>(250 GB) drive to add more storage. Is there anything unusual to worry
>about if adding a IDE drive to the mix? I have read posts before but never
>paid attention to them. Just wondering if the how the computer deals with
>adding a PATA drive to one already booting from a SATA drive. He also has
>two CD drives, one DVD and one burner but I can't remember if those are on
>the Primary or Secondary controller. Which brings up a good point, should
>a new IDE drive be put on Pri or Sec controller?
>