Subject: Can I run IDE Drives and SATA Drives Together?
From: WoofWoof
Date: 11/5/2004 11:45 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Mark Timerding wrote:

While I am using a K8V in lieu of the P4S8X and dont know
about that board, but I do know that SATA and IDE drives
will run together.....(tho I dont know a whole lot about RAID
setups), My current config is:
Drive C: Partition one of WDC Raptor 74 gig Sata (on SATA 1)
Drive D: Segate 80 gig Sata (on SATA 2)
Drive E: Seagate 60 gig IDE (IDE 1
Master)
Drive F: Seagate 120gig IDE (IDE 1 Slave)
Drive G: Partition two of the WDC Raptor (on Sata 1)
Drive H: Pioneer 108 DVDRW (IDE 2 Master)
Drive I: Pioneer 106 DVDRW (IDE 2 Slave)

Initially, I was using the IDE's to boot off of, and only had
(and used) the one 80 gig sata for storage but recently
had purchased the Raptor, and hence made the Sata my
Boot (C) drive.

Interesting.

What OS are you using, and when you changed boot drives did you have
to re-install the OS or is there a way to transfer the existing
installation?







Mine is XP Pro. It can be done using Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image or a
similar program. Make a backup image, put in the new drive, take out the old
drive temporarily, put in the new drive and config the bios to boot from it
then restore the Ghost image to it.
You may be asked to reactivate windows, I was when I went from IDE to SATA RAID
0.