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Changing 2nd Hard Drive from Pata to Sata ?
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| admiral_victory@iol.ie 2006-05-29, 5:04 pm |
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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?
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| Maxim S. Shatskih 2006-05-29, 5:04 pm |
| > 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.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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