If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Serial ATA Question
Can anybody give the spiel on Serial ATA in a nutshell?
1. Is there any problem when Win 98SE is the OS? (I'm building a Win98SE/Win2K Pro dual boot machine) 2. Regarding the normal 4 EIDE limitation...does running a serial ATA-capable harddrive from the serial connector on the motherboard free-up the 4 EIDE connections from your motherboard; in other words, could one run one or two (I think most motherboards come with 2 connections) serial ATA harddrives off the serial ATA port and have all the other 4 EIDE connections for 4 EIDE devices? Thanks for any advice. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/04 |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:30:51 -0500, "Zed" wrote:
Can anybody give the spiel on Serial ATA in a nutshell? 1. Is there any problem when Win 98SE is the OS? (I'm building a Win98SE/Win2K Pro dual boot machine) 2. Regarding the normal 4 EIDE limitation...does running a serial ATA-capable harddrive from the serial connector on the motherboard free-up the 4 EIDE connections from your motherboard; in other words, could one run one or two (I think most motherboards come with 2 connections) serial ATA harddrives off the serial ATA port and have all the other 4 EIDE connections for 4 EIDE devices? Thanks for any advice. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/04 2. Yes. I have 2 SATAs off the serial ATA ports, 2 CD-RWs on primary IDE and still have secondard open. I could put 2 parallel hds on the secondary. 1. Don't know 4 sure, I have XP, but you need different drivers in the operating system. XP, on install, asks if you have 3rd party or SCSI drivers to install. Here you put in a floppy with SATA hd drivers on it. Don't know how you'ld install thm in WIN98SE. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Yes, you can run 4 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives at the same time.
-- DaveW "Zed" wrote in message .. . Can anybody give the spiel on Serial ATA in a nutshell? 1. Is there any problem when Win 98SE is the OS? (I'm building a Win98SE/Win2K Pro dual boot machine) 2. Regarding the normal 4 EIDE limitation...does running a serial ATA-capable harddrive from the serial connector on the motherboard free-up the 4 EIDE connections from your motherboard; in other words, could one run one or two (I think most motherboards come with 2 connections) serial ATA harddrives off the serial ATA port and have all the other 4 EIDE connections for 4 EIDE devices? Thanks for any advice. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/04 |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Yes, you can run 4 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives at the same time. -- DaveW Hello everyone, I'm having trouble with this at the moment. I have installed a new SATA 120gb Seagate today (partitioned into 10gb primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives. After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot to it and install Windows XP (along with pressing F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted). Problem is - when I boot using this new drive, my two old ones cannot be seen. (The two DVD drives on the secondary IDE channel are showing up fine). However, if I change the BIOS back to how it was and boot up on my old drive, the new SATA drive is there showing both partitions no problem. I really wanted to have the new one as my main drive as it does seem to be much faster (during windows xp installation it went down from 30 minutes remaining to zero in about 10 minutes). I suppose it doesn't really matter and I can live without it for a bit, but the extra 80gb storage on my 2 old drives would have been nice. So - what should the correct settings be in BIOS? Is there anything I can do in Windows to make the IDE primary and secondary drives visible? What should the jumper settings be on the old drives - do they need changing from master and slave? I don't know what else to try. System: P4 2.6gb Giga-byte GA-8IK1100 1gb PC3200 2 x 40gb HDD on IDE channel 1 DVD-RW and DVD-ROM both on 2nd IDE channel Anything else please let me know. Please reply to the group as this e-mail address is unusable due to spam Thank you Peter |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Try placing the DVD drives on the first IDE port and the hard drives on the second IDE port. If you can't boot with the SATA drive and access all of your devices you can boot from your old IDE drive and load windows from the SATA drive. Peter wrote: Yes, you can run 4 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives at the same time. -- DaveW Hello everyone, I'm having trouble with this at the moment. I have installed a new SATA 120gb Seagate today (partitioned into 10gb primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives. After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot to it and install Windows XP (along with pressing F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted). Problem is - when I boot using this new drive, my two old ones cannot be seen. (The two DVD drives on the secondary IDE channel are showing up fine). However, if I change the BIOS back to how it was and boot up on my old drive, the new SATA drive is there showing both partitions no problem. I really wanted to have the new one as my main drive as it does seem to be much faster (during windows xp installation it went down from 30 minutes remaining to zero in about 10 minutes). I suppose it doesn't really matter and I can live without it for a bit, but the extra 80gb storage on my 2 old drives would have been nice. So - what should the correct settings be in BIOS? Is there anything I can do in Windows to make the IDE primary and secondary drives visible? What should the jumper settings be on the old drives - do they need changing from master and slave? I don't know what else to try. System: P4 2.6gb Giga-byte GA-8IK1100 1gb PC3200 2 x 40gb HDD on IDE channel 1 DVD-RW and DVD-ROM both on 2nd IDE channel Anything else please let me know. Please reply to the group as this e-mail address is unusable due to spam Thank you Peter -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Hello everyone, I'm having trouble with this at the moment. I have installed a new SATA 120gb Seagate today (partitioned into 10gb primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives. After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot to it and install Windows XP (along with pressing F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted). Problem is - when I boot using this new drive, my two old ones cannot be seen. Can't be seen in the CMOS boot screen? Or just can't be seen in Windows? (The two DVD drives on the secondary IDE channel are showing up fine). However, if I change the BIOS back to how it was and boot up on my old drive, the new SATA drive is there showing both partitions no problem. I really wanted to have the new one as my main drive as it does seem to be much faster (during windows xp installation it went down from 30 minutes remaining to zero in about 10 minutes). What type of partitions is each of the 4 (?) partitions? Anything else please let me know. The partitions may not be compatible. You could have drivers loading on the original boot drive...that isn't loading anymore. Or you could have FAT/FAT32/NTFS problems. Can you see all the drives in the BIOS screen at boot? Have a nice week... Trent Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed! Thanks Trent for your reply. In the end a BIOS upgrade did the trick. Up and running now. Peter |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Does burning a CD image to CD overwrite serial #? | Dos-Man | General | 1 | November 27th 03 08:48 AM |
Memory Question - outcome of exceeding the memory limits of a machine. | John B. | General | 4 | November 4th 03 12:25 PM |
USB, Parallel Scanner, Serial Joystick | The Kid | General | 2 | September 1st 03 04:38 AM |
serial to parallel adapter | Old guy | General | 2 | July 30th 03 11:11 PM |
KVM Switch for Both PS/2 and AT Connectors | Alien Zord | General | 5 | July 9th 03 07:19 PM |