ATA and IDE

[Ragman]

I am planning on installing a 200gb Serial ATA. Right now I have 2 harddrives installed. 1 40gb and 1 60gb IDE (parallel). I want to leave these drives the way they are and install the Serial ATA via the serial port on my machine. Is there anything I should expect when doing this?Will this work or do I have to do some refiguring?

I am planning to run windows XP Pro on the 40 gb. ANd I am planning to install Mepis 3.3.1 on the 60 gb. And the 200 gb will be a storage drive.


Thanks, :confused:

[ghost2003]

take a look at the SATA guide
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=120379

[Cricket]

I am planning on installing a 200gb Serial ATA. Right now I have 2 harddrives installed. 1 40gb and 1 60gb IDE (parallel). I want to leave these drives the way they are and install the Serial ATA via the serial port on my machine.You really don't mean the serial port on the back of the computer, do you? Because a SATA hard drive does not connect to the serial port, it connects to a SATA connection on the motherboard.

:) Cricket

[Ragman]

Yes it is a serial connection on the mother board. Not on the back of the machine.Hince the "S" in SATA


Thank Guys,
I did a little bit of searching and found the answers I was looking for....Spyder Did alot of work on that post...

Thanks Spyder