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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: daveeb on March 03, 2005, 18:45

Title: SATA hard drive question(s)
Post by: daveeb on March 03, 2005, 18:45

m$ knowledge base wasnt too helpful, so if anyone is familiar with these beasties.....

Do SATA motherboards also have IDE connectors to run both types of drive simultaneously ?

I've read that to install a SATA drive you need to load some drivers....so next question is what if the pc doesnt have a floppy drive. ?

i'm thinking of getting a new pc in the nearish future and cant decide whether to stick with the IDE devil i know   :roll:

Title: SATA hard drive question(s)
Post by: Sandra on March 03, 2005, 20:16

I have only seen SATA with IDE mobos Dave, although newer ones may go just to SATA exclusively.
I would have thought that XP, especially with SP2 should have the drivers for SATA already but I havent tried one yet  :)

Title: SATA hard drive question(s)
Post by: daveeb on March 04, 2005, 10:43

Ta Sandra...think i'll have to look into this a bit more  :shock: