SATA and PATA co-existing?

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Bobby

I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
it's been a long story ;-)

I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.

But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two settings
(MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).

Is it possible to do what I want to do?

If so, how?

Cheers.

Bobby
 
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I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
it's been a long story ;-)

I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.

But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two settings
(MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).

Is it possible to do what I want to do?

If so, how?
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The master/slave/CS setting only applies to drives connected to the same
physical cable. Drives connected to other cables are completely
irrelevant.

In other words, if it's the only drive on it's chain, set it to Master
(or CS)

As far as which drive boots, this is likely a BIOS setting. You should
be able to control the boot order from there. If SATA isn't an option,
see if there is a SCSI option in the boot order.
 
Windows will seek out the first hard drive that has an operating system
installed.

In your case the SATA drive. Also, by default this becomes the C Drive
[unless you have some boot manager application].

The IDE drives are then assigned drive letters based upon a] the number of
disks and b] their physical location.

IDE0 - Master becomes D and then IDE1 - Master becomes E, IDE0 - Slave
becomes F and then IDE1 - Slave becomes G. If more than one partition, then
additional drive letters are assigned along those guidelines.
 
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