SATA/PCI Card

[Guest]

My old Gateway machine been installed with XP. The internal IDE 1 (primary)
is left hanging while Hd connects to PCI Ultra 66 Cand and WinXP boots
normally. The Sec IDE connects with the 2 cd rom.
When I insert the SATA/IDE card, the pc will do its POST and theeaftee the
cursor will keeps blinking. It will not boot up (no message). Why is that,
any idea?
Essentially I want to use this machine to scan my SATA hd (as slave) from PC
B. Thank you

 

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My old Gateway machine been installed with XP. The internal IDE 1
(primary) is left hanging while Hd connects to PCI Ultra 66 Cand and
WinXP boots normally. The Sec IDE connects with the 2 cd rom.
When I insert the SATA/IDE card, the pc will do its POST and
theeaftee the cursor will keeps blinking. It will not boot up (no
message). Why is that, any idea?
Essentially I want to use this machine to scan my SATA hd (as slave)
from PC B. Thank you

Sounds like a PCI conflict. Try looking through Disk Management and Even
Viewer to see if there are any hints. SATA and PATA are separate things and
shouldn't be able to collide, but ... the PCI might be able to do that.

Also, there is no such thing as "slave" with a SATA drive.

Have ou tried booting up and THEN connecting the SATA? To a degree, they
are hot swappable.

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My old Gateway machine been installed with XP. The internal IDE 1 (primary)
is left hanging while Hd connects to PCI Ultra 66 Cand and WinXP boots
normally. The Sec IDE connects with the 2 cd rom.
When I insert the SATA/IDE card, the pc will do its POST and theeaftee the
cursor will keeps blinking. It will not boot up (no message). Why is that,
any idea?
Essentially I want to use this machine to scan my SATA hd (as slave) from PC
B. Thank you

For what you want to do, get a USB2 to SATA adapter. You do not need a
second PC, but you do need USB2 native on a motherboard. PCI USB2 cards
don't handle the speed. They are limited to PCI buss speed.

 

[Guest]

Just wondering how do I see the Disk Mgt for conflict if I cannot boot up.

I have not tried booting up and connect to SATA as I csnt even get to the
installation of the hardware.

"need USB2 native on a motherboard." - I suppose "native" here means the
USB2 comes with the motherboard. No, the motherboard that I have does not
comes with the USB2, only usb 1.1
Will check for the USB 2 to SATA adapter but will I be able to use it if I
dont have the native usb2 on the motherboard.? Your opinion please and thanks

 

[Rock]

Just wondering how do I see the Disk Mgt for conflict if I cannot boot up.

I have not tried booting up and connect to SATA as I csnt even get to the
installation of the hardware.

"need USB2 native on a motherboard." - I suppose "native" here means the
USB2 comes with the motherboard. No, the motherboard that I have does not
comes with the USB2, only usb 1.1
Will check for the USB 2 to SATA adapter but will I be able to use it if
I
dont have the native usb2 on the motherboard.? Your opinion please and
thanks

Have you tried the card in a different PCI slot?