Mobo only Sata ?

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Someone told me I can connect the Master Part of the ide cable from the cd drive to the Hard Drive, and the slave of that same cable to the Cd Drive ?

Is that possible ???????/
 
performance will suffer. if you want to use ide hdd, get two ide hdd and buy a sata cd drive or get a pci - ide i/o card.
 
But will it work.
I just want to test my new build, and make sure everything works.

I plan to buy a sata hdd pretty soon.

Let me know if the above will work and not damage my board

thanks
 
You can put any PATA drive on the ribbon cable, just make sure you set master/slave properly or it wont work (it wont damage it either though).
 
No I already own those old Hard Drives I listed.

I'm building a new pc and I bought everything except for the Hard Drive.

Now I'm going to run to the store and buy a Sata Hard Drive.

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Is SATA-3G the same thing as Serial ATA-300 ???


Look at the specs of my Mobo, link above.
What should the Hard Drive I buy say on the title ??
 
Yes you can put a hard drive and optical drive on the same IDE channel (cable), but performance will go down pretty drastically if you are either copying files from the optical drive, playing a game, watching a video, or doing anything else with both devices.

You could invest in an IDE-to-SATA adapter.
 
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