sata and eide hard drives in same box?

A

`AMD tower

Hi,

Do serial drives play well with ide drives in the
same system? I mean, if you buy a new computer
that has both interfaces on the mother board and a sata drive installed with
the os on it, can you plug an ide drive in the ide controller port and have,
in effect, a master/slave setup?

Mike
 
L

Lez Pawl

`AMD tower said:
Hi,

Do serial drives play well with ide drives in the
same system? I mean, if you buy a new computer
that has both interfaces on the mother board and a sata drive installed
with the os on it, can you plug an ide drive in the ide controller port
and have, in effect, a master/slave setup?

Mike
Click to expand...

yes
 
J

jaster

Hi,

Do serial drives play well with ide drives in the same system? I mean, if
you buy a new computer that has both interfaces on the mother board and a
sata drive installed with the os on it, can you plug an ide drive in the
ide controller port and have, in effect, a master/slave setup?

Mike
Click to expand...
Yes, should work. The bios of my m/b allows me to switch between IDE,
SATA or other card as the boot device, so I can boot off the IDE or SATA
drive.
 
A

`AMD tower

thanks for the quick replies.

mike

jaster said:
Yes, should work. The bios of my m/b allows me to switch between IDE,
SATA or other card as the boot device, so I can boot off the IDE or SATA
drive.
Click to expand...
 
J

JamesG

`AMD tower said:
Hi,

Do serial drives play well with ide drives in the
same system? I mean, if you buy a new computer
that has both interfaces on the mother board and a sata drive installed with
the os on it, can you plug an ide drive in the ide controller port and have,
in effect, a master/slave setup?

Mike
Click to expand...

Mike,
I owned an ide and a Sata drive so I just put put them in a new
computer that I built. They seem to be working fine so far. I have
the IDE as my boot drive and the SATA as extra storage. I benchmarked
both of them and they seem to be very close in performance.

Have a good day,
James
 
I

Israel Richner

Yes, I do this now. On my mobo I just have to enable "Combined Mode" in
the bios.

Izzy
 
D

DaveW

It would NOT be Master/Slave setup, but yes it would certainly work fine.
That's how mine is set up.
 

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