sata and ata controller?

[Alan]

I'm thinking about getting a WD raptor 74gb hard drive as my OS Winxp
boot drive. I have an ata 133 controller card for two 180 gig hard
drives, and will probably get the WD sata controller card. Will my
mobo bios have any conflcts selecting the sata pci card? Right now in
my bios, I have first boot device as scsi for the ata controller card.

 

[J. Clarke]

I'm thinking about getting a WD raptor 74gb hard drive as my OS Winxp
boot drive. I have an ata 133 controller card for two 180 gig hard
drives, and will probably get the WD sata controller card. Will my
mobo bios have any conflcts selecting the sata pci card? Right now in
my bios, I have first boot device as scsi for the ata controller card.

The problem is going to be the boot sequence--you will probably have to move
the two host adapters around for a bit until the one that you want to use
for boot becomes first in the boot order and it's possible that they won't
like each other at all.

 

[Odie]

I'm thinking about getting a WD raptor 74gb hard drive as my OS Winxp
boot drive. I have an ata 133 controller card for two 180 gig hard
drives, and will probably get the WD sata controller card. Will my
mobo bios have any conflcts selecting the sata pci card? Right now in
my bios, I have first boot device as scsi for the ata controller card.

No problem at all - the system will see the SATA drive as SCSI. So if
you want to boot off the SATA drive, select SCSI-1.

Do yourself a favour and get the 10K rpm SATA drive - it is serously
quick. (Pricey too, though.)

Odie

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

No problem at all - the system will see the SATA drive as SCSI. So if
you want to boot off the SATA drive, select SCSI-1.

What makes you think it will be SCSI-1?