SATA and IDE HDD

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I have an MSI 848P NEO mobo and have recently purchased a 160GB Sata HDD as a
master and pushed my IDE to slave. However in the BIOS it shows the IDE
drive as a peripheral and not a boot device.

Are these two types of drives compatible in this way? Can you use Sata's
with IDE drives?
 
Manimal said:
I have an MSI 848P NEO mobo and have recently purchased a 160GB Sata HDD as a
master and pushed my IDE to slave. However in the BIOS it shows the IDE
drive as a peripheral and not a boot device.

Are these two types of drives compatible in this way? Can you use Sata's
with IDE drives?
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You should be able to. But they will be on different channels: the IDE
one should be the master on its channel, and the Sata master on its one.
Whether the BIOS will then accept booting the IDE device is a matter for
the BIOS, but I would have expected it
 
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