SATA Hard drives + ATA on same machine

2006-04-13 06:04:31

#1

Tunacommy: Member; +56|6907|Massachusetts, USA

You guys will probably think this is a stupid question....but.....

I will be installing 2 new SATA drives this weekend on a new machine....but will also be bringing in an olded ATA drive as well. Since there is no need for "master/slave" jumpering on the SATA drives.....I assume I would set the ONLY ATA drive as the master? Even though it is not the main drive I will be using....it will still be the only drive on the old style IDE cable.....

2006-04-13 07:42:27

#2

atlvolunteer: PKMMMMMMMMMM; +27|7058|Atlanta, GA USA

short answer: yes

2006-04-13 08:08:10

#3

vjs: Member; +19|7057

Longer answer,

consider raid-0 on those two sata drives, back up your vital information from the sata-raid-0 to the ata drive from time to time.

2006-04-13 08:21:30

#4

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7022|Salt Lake City

No problem at all. I had SATA and PATA in my system for a period of time without any issues at all.

2006-04-13 08:30:29

#5

[CANADA]_Zenmaster: Pope Picard II; +473|7032

I have 1 SATA and 4 IDEs in my system - wish I could afford more SATA. Anyways, no problems running OS on SATA and using the IDEs for data storage. Noticeable increase in BF2 loading time when you switch to SATA as well.

2006-04-13 09:11:06

#6

MaddOps: Who the hell elected you leader of this outfit?; +55|6883

I'd recommend running cable select on your old PATA drives.

Built all my machines that way. Makes for easy swapping and you never have to touch your jumpers.
I've not read anything about a performance decrease due to not sticking with the Master/Slave configuration.

Then if you ever have to test the drive you can take it to any machine and hit it with the cable and power and you're good to go.

2006-04-13 09:15:16

#7

bigelectricat: Member; +3|6978

no such thing as master and slave setting on SATA so it should be no problem. since you will be going multiple drives, check and see if SSC is enabled on each of the drive. and also on the BIOS of the motherboard. the IDE drive, depending on its age, might not support SSC. you want to have SSC enabled if you got multiple drives. it helps reduce EMI.

2006-04-13 10:30:04

#8

Tunacommy: Member; +56|6907|Massachusetts, USA

bigelectricat wrote:
no such thing as master and slave setting on SATA so it should be no problem. since you will be going multiple drives, check and see if SSC is enabled on each of the drive. and also on the BIOS of the motherboard. the IDE drive, depending on its age, might not support SSC. you want to have SSC enabled if you got multiple drives. it helps reduce EMI.

OK - what does SCC mean? is that a setting in the OS or the BIOS? thanks

2006-04-13 10:31:14

#9

Tunacommy: Member; +56|6907|Massachusetts, USA

MaddOps wrote:
I'd recommend running cable select on your old PATA drives.

Built all my machines that way. Makes for easy swapping and you never have to touch your jumpers.
I've not read anything about a performance decrease due to not sticking with the Master/Slave configuration.

Then if you ever have to test the drive you can take it to any machine and hit it with the cable and power and you're good to go.

I have heard of that setting - I will see if mine supports that setting - seems to make the most sense.....

2006-04-13 12:17:29

#10

bigelectricat: Member; +3|6978

Tunacommy wrote:
bigelectricat wrote:
no such thing as master and slave setting on SATA so it should be no problem. since you will be going multiple drives, check and see if SSC is enabled on each of the drive. and also on the BIOS of the motherboard. the IDE drive, depending on its age, might not support SSC. you want to have SSC enabled if you got multiple drives. it helps reduce EMI.
OK - what does SCC mean? is that a setting in the OS or the BIOS? thanks

SSC is spread spectrum clocking. it has to be enabled on the BIOS and the hard drive itself. SATA and IDE hard drives made by seagate uses a DOS utility to enable/disable SSC. you have to create a boot floppy to use it. western digital SATA drives uses jumpers to enable/disable SSC. i dont know if western digital IDE drives has the SSC feature.

2006-04-13 13:11:31

#11

Janus67: Tech God; +86|6881|Ohio, USA

just remember that you may have to change your boot device order in BIOS in order to boot to SATA (if that is where your OS is installed). I have to do it with my DFI board. It defaults to PATA drives.

2006-04-14 06:16:09

#12

Tunacommy: Member; +56|6907|Massachusetts, USA

got it - thanks.

Set the WD with the jumpers last night to SSC and will do so to the Seagate later....yes, for some reason I am putting both brands in there!!

will probably do the burn in today and the BIOS settings OS install this afternoon....hope to be on BF tonight with my new machine - my old slow dell is going in the basement....

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