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P4P800 Deluxe - Can I add SATA drives as extra drives in a previously PATA setup
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Asus P4P800 Deluxe Softwa Win XP Pro SP1 New to S-ATA drives, so pardon if this is a stupid question. I have an Asus P4P800 Deluxe with the IDE configuration set to P-ATA only. My Primary IDE channel, which shows up as 'Third Master' on boot screen during power-up, contains two IDE HDs, my boot disc and a data disc. My Secondary IDE channel ('Third slave') has a DVD+/-RW and a IDE ZIP drive. I am looking at adding another large data drive and was wondering: Can I buy a S-ATA drive, change the BIOS IDE Configuration to P-ATA/S-ATA and have the S-ATA drive simply appear as an E: drive in Windows XP? Or will the mobo expect to boot off the S-ATA since its listed as 'First Master' on the boot screen? TIA --- Bob |
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My bios is set to "Sata" and "enhanced" configuration. Installed a
160 gig WD as third master. The system did a small hickup on the 160 gig although I had XPpro Sp1 (more than the 137 barrier). I partitioned the drive as it was my original intention and everything is running smooth. I cloned over the main partition to the sata drive and configured bios to boot off the new sata drive no problem. You will note that a sata drive has lower transfer speeds than a regular IDE drive due to the onboard pata to sata bridge. In my case normal transfer speeds for a WD 7200rpm with 8 mg cache is 46 mb/s while for the sata drive (still with 7200 rpm & 8 mg cache) it is only 34 mb/s. The sata drive is no longer my boot drive but it makes a good storage drive. Locust On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:52:26 GMT, "Bob Rafuse" wrote: Hardwa Asus P4P800 Deluxe Softwa Win XP Pro SP1 New to S-ATA drives, so pardon if this is a stupid question. I have an Asus P4P800 Deluxe with the IDE configuration set to P-ATA only. My Primary IDE channel, which shows up as 'Third Master' on boot screen during power-up, contains two IDE HDs, my boot disc and a data disc. My Secondary IDE channel ('Third slave') has a DVD+/-RW and a IDE ZIP drive. I am looking at adding another large data drive and was wondering: Can I buy a S-ATA drive, change the BIOS IDE Configuration to P-ATA/S-ATA and have the S-ATA drive simply appear as an E: drive in Windows XP? Or will the mobo expect to boot off the S-ATA since its listed as 'First Master' on the boot screen? TIA --- Bob |
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