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If you are setting up a new motherboard and installing a SATA drive as your master, then can you still set-up a IDE drive as a slave drive?
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Well. . . the correct answer to that question is: no. SATA uses only master, so you can't slave a hard drive to it.
But, I understand what you mean, and the answer is: yes. You can have both PATA and SATA hard drive in your computer.
But, the PATA one has to be master.
See, SATA is IDE as well. Just a little different than old PATA. Still, master/slave refers to the setup of two devices on the same channel. And that hasn't changed. It's just, SATA is peer to peer, there you have only master.
But you set up PATA devices just like you always have, regardless of how many SATA drives are connected there.
RJ