Adding a IDE drive to a SATA system

[Jbob]

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?

 

[DDC]

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???

 

[[Q4O]Gizmo]

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.

 

[Jbob]

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.

 

[DaveW]

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