Here is another working (mixed PATA/SATA) configuration but which requires
no diskette to install the system, so no need to hit F6 and so on, just like
a standard IDE configuration.

I successfully tested it with Windows XP SP1a CD and Longhorn alpha preview
DVD.

Hardwa

- I plugged both my Maxtor HDDs to the true (pink) IDE port with a
80-conductor cable, one drive as master and the other one as slave.

- I plugged the first SATA optical drive to the SATA1 connector and the
second one to the SATA3 connector.

- In the BIOS, I set the related options like this:

On-Chip PCI IDE [ Enabled ]
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [ Disabled ]
On-Chip SATA Mode [ Enhanced ]
On-board H/W GigaRAID [ Disabled ]

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Noël