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using both SATA and IDE drives and booting from SATA
I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am
replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE Channel 2. My question is, will the SATA drive boot if it is set to be IDE-2, or am I forced to put my boot device on IDE-0, meaning I can only boot from a PATA drive? |
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using both SATA and IDE drives and booting from SATA
"HamNCheese" wrote:
I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE Channel 2. My question is, will the SATA drive boot if it is set to be IDE-2, or am I forced to put my boot device on IDE-0, meaning I can only boot from a PATA drive? Your question is equivalent to asking if the installer will get the value of "x" right in "rdisk(x)" of the resulting boot.ini file in order to boot an OS that is installed on the SATA HD. My guess is that it will. Right now, you probably have only ch. 0 and ch. 1 available for PATA drives. That accommodates a maximum value of "3" for "x" in the event that you had 4 PATA HDs in the system. By assigning the 1st SATA HD to "ch. 2", the BIOS retains the identity of any remaining PATA drives in the HD Boot Order. That is, if you still have 4 PATA HDs, their corresponding values of "x" would (in the default case before you might have reset the HD Boot Order) be: x=0 for Master on IDE ch. 0, x=1 for Slave on IDE ch. 0, x=2 for Master on IDE ch. 1, x=3 for Slave on IDE ch. 1. If you then toss a SATA HD into the mix, it will occupy "IDE ch. 2" and not displace any of the PATA HDs in the HD Boot Order. It's possible that by enabling SATA and thus enabling "IDE ch. 2" and "IDE ch. 3" for SATA HDs to use, you remove the PATA IDE ch. 1 for 2 PATA HDs, but the relative positions of the first 2 PATA HDs and the added 2 SATA HDs would remain. The way to verify this is to install the OS on the SATA HD with the PATA HD still connected, and see what the installer does to the PATA's and SATA's boot.ini files, looking at the values of "x" in the "rdisk(x)" parameters of the resulting ARC paths. The installer should set up a dual-boot menu in the boot.ini file of one of them. If you install the OS on the SATA HD with the PATA HD disconnected, it won't set up a dual-boot menu for you. Please post your results. *TimDaniels* |
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using both SATA and IDE drives and booting from SATA
The BIOS will boot whatever disk you place at the top of the list in
the setting Hard Disk Boot Priority under Advanced BIOS Features: Hard Disk Boot Priority (Press Enter) Scroll to this item and press Enter to view the following screen: Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Hard Disk Boot Priority 1. Pri. Master: 2. Pri. Slave: 3. Sec. Master: 4. Sec. Slave: 5. USBHDD0: 6. USBHDD1: 7. USBHDD2: 8. Bootable Add-in Cards Item Help Menu Level ! ! Use or to select a device, then press + to move it up, or - to move it down the list. Press ESC to exit this menu. On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:29:03 GMT, HamNCheese wrote: I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE Channel 2. My question is, will the SATA drive boot if it is set to be IDE-2, or am I forced to put my boot device on IDE-0, meaning I can only boot from a PATA drive? |
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Previously HamNCheese wrote:
I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE Channel 2. My question is, will the SATA drive boot if it is set to be IDE-2, or am I forced to put my boot device on IDE-0, meaning I can only boot from a PATA drive? Depends on your boot-maanager and on whether you adjust its configuration. The BIOS is most likely able to select the SATA drive as boot device. Both LILO and Grub can run from any device, but need to be configured for it, either before booting or interactively during boot (which is not persistent). I have no idea what minimalistic boot mamagers like that of Windows XP do. Arno |
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Timothy Daniels wrote
HamNCheese wrote I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE Channel 2. My question is, will the SATA drive boot if it is set to be IDE-2, or am I forced to put my boot device on IDE-0, meaning I can only boot from a PATA drive? Your question is equivalent to asking if the installer will get the value of "x" right in "rdisk(x)" of the resulting boot.ini file in order to boot an OS that is installed on the SATA HD. Nope. That isnt necessarily involved when you specify the boot drive in the bios boot order list. My guess is that it will. Right now, you probably have only ch. 0 and ch. 1 available for PATA drives. That accommodates a maximum value of "3" for "x" in the event that you had 4 PATA HDs in the system. By assigning the 1st SATA HD to "ch. 2", the BIOS retains the identity of any remaining PATA drives in the HD Boot Order. You dont know that. That is, if you still have 4 PATA HDs, their corresponding values of "x" would (in the default case before you might have reset the HD Boot Order) be: x=0 for Master on IDE ch. 0, x=1 for Slave on IDE ch. 0, x=2 for Master on IDE ch. 1, x=3 for Slave on IDE ch. 1. If you then toss a SATA HD into the mix, it will occupy "IDE ch. 2" Or that. and not displace any of the PATA HDs in the HD Boot Order. It's possible that by enabling SATA and thus enabling "IDE ch. 2" and "IDE ch. 3" for SATA HDs to use, you remove the PATA IDE ch. 1 for 2 PATA HDs, but the relative positions of the first 2 PATA HDs and the added 2 SATA HDs would remain. Or that. The way to verify this is to install the OS on the SATA HD with the PATA HD still connected, and see what the installer does to the PATA's and SATA's boot.ini files, looking at the values of "x" in the "rdisk(x)" parameters of the resulting ARC paths. The installer should set up a dual-boot menu in the boot.ini file of one of them. Makes more sense to not go that route in his situation. If you install the OS on the SATA HD with the PATA HD disconnected, it won't set up a dual-boot menu for you. And the last thing he need is a dual boot menu. Please post your results. |
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"Rod Speed" wrote:
Nope. That isnt necessarily involved when you specify the boot drive in the bios boot order list. You dont know that. Or that. Or that. And the last thing he need is a dual boot menu. You're so helpful, Rod. Why don't you tell us how it works? *TimDaniels* |
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