I just sent for a SATA HD (my first ever), and I want to leave my EIDE
HD in there as a second drive. Is that going to be complicated? I
don't intend to RAID.

BTW, it's an OEM drive. I assume that means no cable (no prob, I got
one) but I will get a driver disk, yes?

I have SATA on my mainboard, so that's no worry.

The harddrive will NOT come with a driver. The driver you need is on your
motherboard's driver CD.

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DaveW

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"ToolPackinMama" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I just sent for a SATA HD (my first ever), and I want to leave my EIDE HD
>in there as a second drive. Is that going to be complicated? I don't
>intend to RAID.
>
> BTW, it's an OEM drive. I assume that means no cable (no prob, I got one)
> but I will get a driver disk, yes?
>
> I have SATA on my mainboard, so that's no worry.
>

"DaveW" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The harddrive will NOT come with a driver. The driver you need is on your
> motherboard's driver CD.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
If you set it up in bios as "normal ide" or whatever your particular MB
calls it, no driver is needed. It is only need for a raid setup. XP will
have it there. The MB's .inf and any other drivers you may need you can
install from the CD. XPsp2 will recognize the SATA drives just fine. No need
for an F6 install of any drivers unless you are using raid on your SATA
drives.

Ed

DaveW wrote:
> The harddrive will NOT come with a driver. The driver you need is on your
> motherboard's driver CD.

Oh! OK.

Ed Medlin wrote:

> If you set it up in bios as "normal ide" or whatever your particular MB
> calls it, no driver is needed. It is only need for a raid setup. XP will
> have it there. The MB's .inf and any other drivers you may need you can
> install from the CD. XPsp2 will recognize the SATA drives just fine. No need
> for an F6 install of any drivers unless you are using raid on your SATA
> drives.

Wow, that's great. Thanks.

One more question: How should I jumper the IDE drive? I plan to leave
it on the primary IDE. Can I leave it jumpered to master, but boot first
to the SATA drive?

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:23:07 -0500, ToolPackinMama
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>One more question: How should I jumper the IDE drive? I plan to leave
>it on the primary IDE. Can I leave it jumpered to master, but boot first
>to the SATA drive?

Set it as slave.

Ann

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:23:07 -0500, ToolPackinMama
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out:

>One more question: How should I jumper the IDE drive? I plan to leave
>it on the primary IDE. Can I leave it jumpered to master, but boot first
>to the SATA drive?

No need to change anything on the IDE drive when adding a SATA drive.

Stephen
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"ToolPackinMama" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> One more question: How should I jumper the IDE drive? I plan to leave it
> on the primary IDE. Can I leave it jumpered to master, but boot first to
> the SATA drive?
>

Treat you IDE drive just as you would any other. If it is by itself, jumper
it as "Single". There are some bios' that require you to also enable SATA to
be bootable. Just take a look around the bios and see. You may also need to
go to the Boot section of the bios and set it too. I think you are familiar
with all that.......:-).

Ed