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Title: SATA hard drive and CD ROM ide question.. skuzzy?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on December 31, 2004, 02:20:01 AM

Hello,

Well this new im buliding PC will have my first SATA HD and since i dont use the primary ide jack anymore for the HD do i now plug in the optical drives into the primary ide jack or still to the secondary?

MB is asus a8v

Thanks

Title: SATA hard drive and CD ROM ide question.. skuzzy?
Post by: 214thCavalier on December 31, 2004, 04:36:30 AM

Does not matter which one you use, but i would use the primary and set your optical drive as master.
You could then disable the secondary ide channel freeing up some resources.

Title: SATA hard drive and CD ROM ide question.. skuzzy?
Post by: Skuzzy on December 31, 2004, 09:31:50 AM

Actually, it might make a difference, depending on how the BIOS is configured.

Look in the motherboard manual.  There ususally is a roadmap on how to confure a mix of IDE and SATA devices in order to keep from using external drivers.

Typically, with Award BIOS's, when you have SATA + IDE devices and you want the SATA drives to act like normal (not RAID), you leave the first IDE channel enabled, and not connected to anything and connect CD/DVD drives to the second IDE bus connector.
The SATA drives act like normal IDE devices then and will not require any external/third party drivers.