HardDrive set-up question, SATA and IDE....

[spmiz]

Gang am wondering something..... 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? I want my primary drive to be SATA however I would love to have a seperate IDE drive to use for my video editting and DVD burning....

Thanks for the help...

[RJ]

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?

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

[spmiz]

Originally Posted by RJ 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

So if I understand this correctly then, I would set my IDE drive jumper to master ( which I would have to install my OS on) and then I can set the jumper on my SATA drive as slave??

What I wanted was to use the SATA drive as my primary drive (cuz of speedier access) and a second drive of like 40-60GB for video archiving during dvd burning or video editing...

Thanks for any hook-up help you can provide...

[spyder003]

Originally Posted by spmiz So if I understand this correctly then, I would set my IDE drive jumper to master ( which I would have to install my OS on) and then I can set the jumper on my SATA drive as slave?? What I wanted was to use the SATA drive as my primary drive (cuz of speedier access) and a second drive of like 40-60GB for video archiving during dvd burning or video editing... Thanks for any hook-up help you can provide...

You don't need to worry about setting jumpers for SATA drives since there is only one drive per channel. Just leave the jumper in the default position. Put your IDE drive on an IDE channel, set it to master and you'll be good to go.

[RJ]

So if I understand this correctly then, I would set my IDE drive jumper to master ( which I would have to install my OS on) and then I can set the jumper on my SATA drive as slave??

No. SATA is only master, nothing else. There is no jumper, there is no slave.

If you install both, you're gonna have two masters.

RJ

[spmiz]

Originally Posted by RJ No. SATA is only master, nothing else. There is no jumper, there is no slave. If you install both, you're gonna have two masters. RJ

Sorry for the dumb follow-up but how does the system know which HD contains the OS???


Thanks

[RJ]

Because when you install the OS, you tell your system where to install it, and your system remembers that.

Since you're into video editing and stuff, haven't you already had more than 1 hard drives in your system ?

RJ

[glc]

SATA drives just install, one drive per cable, leave the jumpers alone. PATA drives install as always, 2 drives possible per cable, jumpered to whatever (master, slave, single, cable select), as long as the jumpering is correct. If you install Windows on the SATA, it will boot from SATA as long as the boot order in the bios is correct. Just because a drive is "master" does not necessarily mean it's going to boot from it.