Re: Is SATA compatible with IDE Hard drives

I cant tell you the exact motherboards but I know one was a giagbyte with the
ICH5 chipset. The SATA drive will boot fine as long as you do not have an IDE
hard drive on the primary controller. Im sure you have seen BIOS setting that
will allow you to set up a SATA drive to look its on the primary IDE? This is
where the problem is. Some manufacturers have not implemented the choice to
choose wether to do this or not. On these particular boards you can not have
anything on the primary IDE if you want to boot to the SATA because it views
them as the same connection. Even though they are not. The weird thing is you
can use the SATA drive for data storge while booting to the Primary IDE.

I have only seen this on a few boards. They were all ICH5 chipsets. Im not
sure if this is just coincidence or not.

I would guese that 99% of board models do not have this problem. I just
wanted to mention it because we have had this issue.

I hope I am explaining this ok Anna. I am dislexic so sometimes when I
explain something it looks ok to me but it makes no sence to someone else.
HeHe.

The Woodpile

"Anna" wrote:

> >> "Dave Neve" <NoAddressForSpammers@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:eTThnTy9FHA.904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Hello
> >> >
> >> > I would like to know if I put together a new computer with a SATA
> >> > drive,
> >> > would I be able to install a second IDE HD (cos I have one already)
> >> >
> >> > Would both HD's be able to boot the system as I normally have a dual
> >> > boot
> >> > system also
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > Dave Neve
>
>
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >>
> >> This depends entirely on the BIOS you have. I recommend
> >> you check out its boot options.
>
>
> "The Woodpile" <TheWoodpile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:30512D4F-C8C0-47A3-A837-10BB052F66F4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Also some of the boards ive seen will not let you boot to the SATA
> > drives
> > if you have a hard drive on the primary IDE controller. (A bios issue like
> > Pegasus was pointed out) This could cause complications. If you run into
> > this
> > you have the option of putting the IDE hard drive on the secondary
> > controller.
> >
> > As long as you dont need access to data on the drive your not booting
> > too you should be able to just disable the SATA or IDE controller in the
> > BIOS
> > on boot up. This is what I do at home. This will also keep you from
> > accidently giveing a virus to your other OS. Not that you would.
> >
> > The Woodpile
> >
> > The Woodpile
>
>
> Dave:
> I'm rather puzzled by "The Woodpile" comments re the inability of
> SATA-capable motherboards not being able to boot to a SATA drive. I've
> worked with a fair number of these boards from a variety of manufacturers
> and I've yet to find a single SATA-capable motherboard that would not permit
> a boot from a properly connected SATA HD. And in every case I've encountered
> where a PATA (IDE) HD was installed in addition to a SATA drive, there is a
> BIOS option to boot from either drive. It is true that some boards are, *in
> addition*, also equipped with IDE connectors that will not allow a connected
> HD to boot from that connector as they're basically designed for optical
> drives.
>
> If "The Woodpile" or Pegasus have encountered SATA-capable motherboards not
> having the above capability of which I speak, I certainly would like to know
> their makes & models.
> Anna
>
>
>
.

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