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Changing 2nd Hard Drive from Pata to Sata ?
I have 2 PATA drives installed but , as the 2nd non-boot drive has failed , I want to replace it with a SATA drive. I understand that these drives do not require jumper settings to be adjusted as they did in the PATA drives . If I simply install this second SATA drive in its m/b connector , will this affect the operation of the other bootable PATA drive which is set as a Master drive? -- to reply by e-mail remove "admiral_" |
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Changing 2nd Hard Drive from Pata to Sata ?
If I simply install this second SATA drive in its m/b connector , will
this affect the operation of the other bootable PATA drive which is set as a Master drive? Depends on controller kind and BIOS settings. With Intel chipsets, there are 2 kinds of BIOS settings - one puts the SATA drive as a slave to PATA drive, sharing the same IO ports with PATA. Another setting uses a separate port range, and the SATA devices will be 100% independent of PATA ones - like a third IDE channel. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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