Connecting both a SATA and ATA hard drive

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Can I connect my new SATA hard drive as my master drive
and use my old ATA hard drive as slave or second hard
drive? Do I make the ATA a slave or leave the jumper in
the master mode?
 
Does your mother board have the sata controler built in or do you have a
controler card. Check your SATA manual cause when using certin SATA's you
can't use certin IDE channels.
 
Bama said:
Can I connect my new SATA hard drive as my master drive
and use my old ATA hard drive as slave or second hard
drive? Do I make the ATA a slave or leave the jumper in
the master mode?
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Serial ATA and parallel ATA would be on separate cables and separate IDE
connections on the motherboard, so the master/slave questions doesn't come
into play. That's only needed when you have 2 devices on 1 cable. If it's
alone, you'd normally make it a master, but in most cases it really doesn't
matter.
 
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