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Toggeling between SATA Drives
I tried to install it with a Seagate 80GB SATA drive attached but it hung when trying to see the SATA drive. I disconnected the drive and it started fine, did my install and shutdown, reconnected drive to try and start, same thing. Tried starting in failsafe, entered ide=nodma as a startup option, but same result.

SATA and IDE Hard Drives
And remember that the interface costs are going to be pretty much the same (plus or minus a few bucks) for any of the copper based interfaces (PATA, SATA, SCSI and SAS), excluding (low) volume related costs, of course. SAS is a particularly interesting case, since converting a SATA drive to SAS will be nothing more

DIM 9200 with Vista support SATA drives?
I've only seen 2 SATA shootouts that included PATA drives. One had a popular WD model (JB1200??) and the other had identical Maxtor models in SATA and PATA. I don't remember much about the one with the WD except that it did well, but was edged out by a couple of the faster SATA drives. The other test had Maxtor,

Mixing SATA and IDE Hard Drives
Both drives set to master and sole occupiers of each IDE channel. SATA - 2 x Western digital 10000 rpm Raptors in RAID 0 config. Will this work? Can I run a conventional IDE drive as the boot drive with Windows installed and have 2 SATA drives in RAID 0 config and use them as the data drive(s)?

2 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive Not Recognized
The current 3 drives are IDE. I am trying to add 1 SATA to the mix. The Kt7 has IDE RAID connectors. Do you think using the onboard RAID controller would increase my chances of booting with the new SATA drive installed? I just put in a SATA card and when I do the boot hangs. The new drive was formatted with XP,

Problems setting up SATA drives and getting Windows XP to load on
Running XP on a home built machine with Pentium 4, 3GHZ, 800 fsb, Gigabyte motherboard, raided SATA drives, All In Wonder ATI9800 graphics card. Initially could not load windows but with help here, I down clocked memory from 400 to 333 and loaded fine (On raided SATA drives, WD Raptors) Ran fine for about a month,

downside of SATA drive on non-SATA IDE
Net LLC c...@shire.net lucky freebsd questions On May 4, 2005, at 10:15 PM, jason henson wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home

SATA hard drive drop out problem
John-Paul Stewart wrote: Murray Eisenberg wrote: Briefly, on an Intelx86 PC that I'm building that has the Intel 875P chipset's built-in SATA support, to Linux: (a) Are the (first) pair of SATA drives identified as IDE drives, hda, hdb if they are NOT installed with RAID? If they are installed as a RAID 1 array?

poor performance after sata installed drive
I initially had the whole system on the SATA drives, one for system, and one for /home. While I normally had no problems, there was one day that the whole system went whacko and I reconfigured and reinstalled... this time I put the root on an IDE drive and RAIDed the SATA's for /home. But it is/was possible to

Interesting conversation with MS tech support about SATA hard ...
Nikos Andreou wrote: Yes, it does have a DVD-ROM drive from ASUS. Thing is that I also have a SATA drive and 2 IDE Drives (DVD-ROM and DVD-R) but SP2 doesn't install... "Matthew Harrison" wrote: Does it have an IDE drive in the system as well. Seems that once an IDE drive is even present, then you wont have the

New Build - Mobo Doesn't Recognize SATA Drives
You want to install Windows XP in the IDE drive and use the SATA drives as storage devices, right? Disconnect the power to the SATA drives. Set the IDE drive as the primary device on the primary IDE controller. Install Windows on the IDE drive, do not power the SATA drives at this stage.

Seeking information on SATA hard drive hot-swapping . . .
IBM) SATA drive - a PATA to SATA converter module - a SCSI to PATA converter (same I use for my IDE DVD burner adaption) - some wires Needed two Y-converters with additional FDD-power connector on each. The two converters use the FDD-like plug for their own supply. No problem - basically. If you have some stocks.

Serial ATA (SATA) drive support
Stephan Grossklass sgrosskl...@yahoo.de alt comp periphs mainboard asus "Peter B." schrieb: I need to add a new hard drive to my ASUS p4p800 deluxe machine. It currently has an ATA 100 drive. In the real world, are the SATA drives that much faster than an ATA drive? I know that they are capable of operating a 150

SATA drive not detected "Help" I'm in Trouble
Andrew E. eckric...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general Problem with that is you can clone IDE drives but not SATA drives,at least in xps XCOPY.Even if you find 3rd party software that could,with a new board one must do a new installation of xp.Youre best bet is to run file transfer wizard on old board,set

Connecting SATA drive and IDE optical?
Einstine he...@goodbye.net comp sys ibm pc games action Yes, as I said I went out and bought a second SATA drive, and I am leaving the CD-ROM ribbon for another CD-ROM. "JK" <jkh...@rogers.com> wrote in message news:GaKdnTCcqM5pO6nfRVn-pg@rogers.com... If you have one standard IDE connector, then that should

320GB SATA drive in a Mod. 9595 ...
Rod Speed <rod_sp...@yahoo.com> wrote SmakDaddy <archan...@engineer.com> wrote I have seen the power converters about for the serial hard drives? anyone know why they even need the plug type converted? SATA drives have a power connector thats different to the power connector on normal PATA drives.

SATA Drives on MSI 875P Board
Added PATA once OS was up and running - so MBR is located on the SCSI drives. This has run fine for 18 months or so. On replacing the PATA for SATA drives, the system fails to boot. The SATA drives are detected during BIOS detection. I hear the system message "Now booting from operating system" at which point

New drive: SCSI or SATA?
However, if you're getting an SATA equipped motherboard, there may only be 1 ATA100 EIDE connector. (The new crop of Intel 915/925 chipset based boards have 4 SATA ports and ! EIDE ATA100 port that supports 2 devices. You may be forced to get at lest one SATA drive if you are going to get into video editing.

RAID 0 SATA drives and IDE drive co-existance
Rod Speed rod.speed....@gmail.com alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt coolsti <c...@nospam.com> wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:03:31 +0000, HiC wrote: Never used a SATA drive, can it be attached master/slave on the same cable with an IDE optical drive or no? I also have never used a SATA drive before, although the

Install 2nd (old, ata) hard drive on sata machine ..
Cicero sheldr...@hellfire.co.uk uk comp homebuilt On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:03:39 +0100, Bob wrote: Hi, My motherboard has both two SATA and an IDE Hard drive connections on it, I currently have to IDE hard drives attached to it and was wondering if I can still add a SATA hard drive to the system, this drive is going