ata ide???????????

[andythelandy]

i am wanting this mobohttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/148802/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended for the build i am going to be using an ide hardrive in it but this board says its conecter it ata?? is this the same as ide will an ide hardrive work with this board?????

thanks in advance

 

[jimmymac]

aye the ATA connection point is for your IDE drives, be aware though that in having just a single ATA channel on the board you would need optical drives to be SATA controlled

 

[andythelandy]

so i couldnt have an ide hardrive and optical drive i need to have a sata optical drive?

 

[andythelandy]

anyone?

 

[Twist86]

nope I kept getting errors when I tried.

Best bet is upgrade to a cheap SATA HDD.

 

[andythelandy]

nope I kept getting errors when I tried.

Best bet is upgrade to a cheap SATA HDD.

aww drn ok

 

[jimmymac]

aye it was an issue i had, so hard to get two seperate IDE channels on a decent motherboard as I have IDE Hard drives and I had IDE optical drives too. The cheapest solution in the end was to buy a SATA optical drive as they are just as cheap as IDE ones now, picked up a nice Optiarc for around £20 meaning I had no need for the second IDE channel on the motherboard