Re: Is it possible to use ATA and SATA at the samer time.

Frank McCoy wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt spodosaurus <spodosaurus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jan Alter wrote:
"yogi" <yogi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fs67m3pks78amh9qr7017d6dqer3prkoh1@xxxxxxxxxx
Seasons greetings to the members of this group.

I am new to the workings of SATA, I have not taken a lot of notice of
it as I have been happy using the old ATA setup, but my P4C800 Deluxe
is getting old and I currently have 2 IDE hard drives on the first IDE
port and a DVD burner and a CD-ROM drive on the second IDE port.

I am slowly buying components to build a new computer, I wanted to buy
a SATA DVD burner and replace both of the existing DVD and CD drives.

I currently have a new Motherboard, CPU, Heatsink Fan and DDR2 ram,
waiting on Hard Drives, Video Card and Power Supply.

Is it possible to leave my 2 ATA IDE hard drives as they are for the
moment and plug the new SATA DVD burner into one of the SATA ports on
the old P4C800 board?

Grateful for any assistance.

Keith


Of course
Yeah, why not?

Don't just swap the hard drives to a new motherboard and expect the OS to load, though.

Make sure you get enough SATA ports on the new motherboard to handle your SATA optical drives and any SATA hard drives. Also, if you want to continue using your PATA drives on a new motherboard, then make sure it has at least one IDE connector to accomodate two drives.

Had a hell of a time finding a new motherboard with both two IDE
connectors and even one parallel-port; but I finally did.

Are two IDEs getting that rare?

We had to buy a couple of PCI serial port cards for the new Dell systems - usb to serial didn't work (not altogether surprised at that, I've seen lots of usb adapters just plain not work).


What's annoying is that most motherboards these days only support ONE
floppy drive; which is silly because supporting two is only *software*.
Geesh! Just a few more bytes in the BIOS. It makes you wonder what
they think they're saving money on.

Hmmm, that /is/ odd. Thanks for the heads up.


I'm currently running 2 SATA HDDs and 3 PATA HDDs on my linux box.

Cheers,

Ari



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