aramp1

Okay, I know there's been multiple threads with similar discussions, but I couldn't find the answer with the search button, so I thought I'd ask.

When my computer boots, windows does an ide scan. There's an adjustment in the bios to allow only ide or ide and sata, but not sata only. All my connections are sata. I figure that it's no big deal since windows won't find anything during the ide scan.

Well, there is eventually going to become a problem. I only have a few sata connections avaliable, then I'll end up having to use the ide spots once I'm out of sata slots. My question is if I add an ide hard drive, will it cause a problem with windows loaded on an sata hard drive but doing the initial ide scan at start up?

Does this all make since?

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ARAMP1

Gigabyte GA-8GPNXP Duo Motherboard
Intel LGA 775 P4 640 3.2GHz Processor
Corsair WMS Extreme DDR PC-3200 Memory
Leadtek NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256 MB Video
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10K RPM Harddrive
Plextor PX-716SA/SW 16X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
Mitsui USB digital card reader/floppy

dave597

not really, but i'll try and make something up anyway.

bios will read (or try to read) all the hardware connected.
the boot loader will still find windows connected on the sata drive. (regardless of any extra formatted or unformatted drives you have)

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Cromewell

That IDE scan is for the ITE8212 RAID controller. As long as your windows drive is in the boot order you wont have a problem

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Yeti

There really shouldn't be any problem. The computer will be able to find the disk where the OS is installed and boot from there. I've heard of some people having conflicts between PATA and SATA drives but have never had any problems personally. Another option would be to buy an additional SATA controller card to add more SATA drives

aramp1

I was thinking of that, but the only slots I have open are all the useless PCI-E x1 slots.


Thanks everyone.

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ARAMP1

Gigabyte GA-8GPNXP Duo Motherboard
Intel LGA 775 P4 640 3.2GHz Processor
Corsair WMS Extreme DDR PC-3200 Memory
Leadtek NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256 MB Video
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10K RPM Harddrive
Plextor PX-716SA/SW 16X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
Mitsui USB digital card reader/floppy