SATA and IDE?

[Gigabyte82]

Have the GIGABYTE GA-8S648FXP-RZ motherboard that has 4 IDE and 2SATA. I have 2 IDE hard drives configured as primary and slave. Can I continue to run xp on my IDE hard drive and plug in a new SATA hard drive for storage? If I do this do I have to have a floppy drive to install the driver for the SATA hard drive?

I know I won't get the benifits of running xp on a faster drive but would this be much faster anyways since SATA goes through IC5? And if I did make SATA my primary could I have 2 IDE storage hard drives?

 

[Praetor]

has 4 IDE and 2SATA. I have 2 IDE hard drives configured as primary and slave.

For starters yer better off having each drive on its own PATA line so its not splitting bandwidth ever

Can I continue to run xp on my IDE hard drive and plug in a new SATA hard drive for storage

Yes

If I do this do I have to have a floppy drive to install the driver for the SATA hard drive?

No. You can download the drivers and install them after booting to Windows

I know I won't get the benifits of running xp on a faster drive but would this be much faster anyways since SATA goes through IC5?

Not an earthshattering difference (if the drives are roughly on par with each other to start with obviously)

And if I did make SATA my primary could I have 2 IDE storage hard drives?

Yes you could but that would require some trickey

 

[Gigabyte82]

When you say put each hard drive on its own PATA Line you mean put each hard drive with a CD-Rom/DVD-RW, I have 2 CD drives. The rest I understand thanks!

 

[Praetor]

When you say put each hard drive on its own PATA Line you mean put each hard drive with a CD-Rom/DVD-RW, I have 2 CD drives

If you have four PATA connectors (two of them are shown in yellow below) then connect each drive to its own PATA connector

 

[1337cshacker]

enable SATA support in the bios, you dont need any special drivers (i diddnt). i have my windows xp 64bit corporate on a 20 gig IDE drive, then i use all file storage on a maxtor SATA 100gig. plug in your SATA drive, enable support in bios, partition the drive in windows and give it a letter name. all done

 

[Geoff]

ide hard drives are slower, but there not as problematic (such as some motherboards lock up when you over clock them if u have a sata drive, but not an ide.

 

[apj101]

enable SATA support in the bios, you dont need any special drivers (i diddnt)

Just because you didn't doesn't mean he doesn't
There are a lot of sata driver that need the drivers to work properly

 

[Praetor]

Just because you didn't doesn't mean he doesn't

In fact the SIS648FX IIRC, doesnt support SATA natively. But that's an oversight that comes with being immature and stupid and banned.