can sata drives also be connected to ide?
I want to buy a pair of sata drives but my present motherboard is using
a PCI 133 ATAPI controller connected to two IDE drives. Can SATA drives be connected until I get a new motherboard? Beemer |
"Beemer" wrote in message ... I want to buy a pair of sata drives but my present motherboard is using a PCI 133 ATAPI controller connected to two IDE drives. Can SATA drives be connected until I get a new motherboard? Beemer No......but SATA PCI controllers can be purchased fairly reasonably and will save you buying a new MB. Ed |
"Ed Medlin" wrote:
"Beemer" wrote in message I want to buy a pair of sata drives but my present motherboard is using a PCI 133 ATAPI controller connected to two IDE drives. Can SATA drives be connected until I get a new motherboard? No......but SATA PCI controllers can be purchased fairly reasonably and will save you buying a new MB. Does he get the same potential benefit of RAID with just a PCI SATA controller? |
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:48:57 GMT, John Doe
wrote: "Ed Medlin" wrote: "Beemer" wrote in message I want to buy a pair of sata drives but my present motherboard is using a PCI 133 ATAPI controller connected to two IDE drives. Can SATA drives be connected until I get a new motherboard? No......but SATA PCI controllers can be purchased fairly reasonably and will save you buying a new MB. Does he get the same potential benefit of RAID with just a PCI SATA controller? That probably depends upon the controller. Many of them support it. ---Atreju--- |
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