"Ron" wrote in message
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Can I have an IDE and SATA hard-drive in the same machine? One acting
like a master the other as slave?

thanks

I have two SATA drives on an ASUS A7N8X Motherboard. It will take an IDE
however, it boots from the IDE first. Seems it looks for IDE drives before
it looks for the SATA controller. I finally scrubbed the IDEs and us only
SATA drives.

Good luck.
Squat