SATA & IDE at the same time?

[Dolly]

Hi peeps,

I have an IDE HDD and will be getting a strip os SATA's anytime soon on the new mobo.

Can I have the two SATA's and the IDE at the same time?

Will the IDE degrade the speed of my SATA drives?

Regards,

 

[iamtrout]

Yes.

No.

 

[torrid]

Rather than starting a new post, I figured I'd extend this similar one.

I just received a Dell 420SC (off the top of my head, I think that's the model). It wants a SATA drive. It came with a SATA drive. I installed Windows XP Pro on her without issue.

Next, I installed a WD 160GB IDE drive as a slave on the single IDE connector, with the CD-ROM drive being the master. Unfortunately when I got into Windows XP, I couldn't find the drive.

I jumped into the BIOS (fancy looking, BTW) and found that the slave was set to off on that IDE connector. OK, so I turned it on.

When rebooting, I get what I would call a drive confusion error. The system pauses to ask if I would like to continue. The error messages basically say no drives are recognized. I continue, XP loads, and I find my drive in the Computer Management area and get it set-up.

Now whenever I reboot I receive this message. It happens after the inial Dell loading screen but before Windows XP loads, so I'm guessing it is a Windows error caught before full-on booting. From time-to-time I'm getting into XP and the IDE drive is missing. This last time, for instance, I rebooted into the BIOS turned OFF the slave on my IDE connection and rebooted - after all this I could then SEE the IDE drive in XP.

Any thoughts? Anyone have experience specifically setting this configuration on the 420SC or similar class Dell server?

Would it be in my best interest to get a SATA-to-IDE dongle for $17 or so?

 

[Bluefront]

There is no easy answer. When I added a 160gb Seagate ATA to a system that had a 160 Seagate SATA as the boot drive, I started getting many sorts of Windows explorer errors (XP Pro)....

I never could resolve the problem. Removing the ATA drive fixed everything.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Yes.

No.

 

[Tarrant64]

Maybe it's a dell issue? One of the desktops at my work is a dell and when another drive was add we had the same error. everything ran fine, but the error still remianed. I did however manage to fix the problem and am heading to work in about 3 hours. When I get there i'll loook into the bios and see if I can remember what i did to solve the issue. I'm sure it's just a setting in the bios somewhere.

Also...double check and make sure everything is setup correctly(cable connections, pins, etc.). i know there are different options such as 'Bios Select'(or something select), setting specifically to Master or Slave, etc. Stuff like that. If someone can expand on what i'm saying please do.

 

[torrid]

Tarrant, I'm waiting to see what your BIOS settings are, but if that doesn't materialize I'll definitely try dropping off the Cable Select jumper settings.

 

[rforum]

A couple things to try:

1. Make the HD master and the CD-Rom it's slave being sure to set jumpers and BIOS settings.
2. If you have two IDE controllers like I do make both the HD and CD_ROM masters on separate controller - again properly setting jumpers and BIOS settings. This arrangement is working great for me.

Good luck.

Joel

 

[SofaKing]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Yes.

No.

 

[torrid]

Originally posted by: SofaKing

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Yes.

No.

Congratulations on another post.