FDD or IDE

Kornowski

Kornowski

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Hi,

I have the ASRock K7NF2-RAID MOBO at the moment:
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I have one IDE HDD plugged into the blue slot, which I think is the IDE slot. I have 2 optical drives plugged into the black slot just below the blue slot.

Is this the FDD connector, or another IDE connector?

I'm getting the Gigabyte GA-965P-S3:

ga-965p-s3.jpg


Can I use my two optical drives on one of the ports, the black one?

And use an IDE HDD on the IDE slot?

Thanks for the help :)
 
On the first board the Floppy port is over by the last PCI slot at the edge, the second board only has 1 IDE and 1 floppy, the green one is the IDE
 
I have two optical drives in my computer at the moment, but I'm taking one of them out, Can I have an IDE cable to go to a HDD and then a DVD/RW drive?

Also, How can I mount a HDD in a 5 1/2 bay?

Or should I just get a SATA drive?
 
Yeah you can put a Hard drive and DVD on the same IDE, Hard drive-Master, DVD Slave. Why would you want to mount the hard drive in the 5.5 bay and yes you can use a Sata drive too
 
Kornowski said:
I have two optical drives in my computer at the moment, but I'm taking one of them out, Can I have an IDE cable to go to a HDD and then a DVD/RW drive?

Also, How can I mount a HDD in a 5 1/2 bay?

Or should I just get a SATA drive?
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I would get a sata they are cheaper than ide and you get more gigabytes for your dollar when you buy sata.
 
I'd want to mount it in the 5 1/2 bay because the rounded IDE cable I have won't reach the HDD bay and the 5 1/2 bay.

I may go with a SATA one, I just hope that the BIOS will recognize it without the use of the drivers off a floppy drive.

Whats a good size chache to have on a HDD?
 
Kornowski said:
I'd want to mount it in the 5 1/2 bay because the rounded IDE cable I have won't reach the HDD bay and the 5 1/2 bay.

I may go with a SATA one, I just hope that the BIOS will recognize it without the use of the drivers off a floppy drive.

Whats a good size chache to have on a HDD?
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The bios should reconige the sata but you may have to enable using sata in the bios for it to work.

A good size cache is either 8MB or 16MB either is fine.
 
I thought you had to install SATA drivers off a floppy disc, but I have heard that it sometimes doesn't need it...

Right, So just enable it in the BIOS, where would it be?

Ok, sure, thanks.
 
Cool, so you mean if the SATA was the only drive I had on the Gigabyte it should be recognized in the BIOS for me to install Windows on without having to put any drivers on?

Thanks for the help :)
 
Yup... boards that only have 1 IDE are designed to have a SATA as their main drive, and should come with the drivers already installed.
 
Regardless of what drive you end up with, I figure I should note; when I tried to load Vista on my PC, it wouldn't work. I threw in a spare 60GB drive I had laying around, but for some reason, it would only work with a SATA drive. I have no clue why :-/
 
PohTayToez said:
Yup... boards that only have 1 IDE are designed to have a SATA as their main drive, and should come with the drivers already installed.
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Excellent, thanks for the help :D

The_Other_One said:
Regardless of what drive you end up with, I figure I should note; when I tried to load Vista on my PC, it wouldn't work. I threw in a spare 60GB drive I had laying around, but for some reason, it would only work with a SATA drive. I have no clue why :-/
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That's strange, I won't be using Vista anyway, but thanks for the heads up! :)
 
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