Re: Boot from SATA or PATA adapter card in PCI slots?

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It may depend on the options in your Bios, and with the Sata card its
capabilities.

"Jon D" <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a PC based on an old SV266A motherboard by Syntax running a
socket-A processor and WinXP.

The mobo supports only PATA.
The PC has 2 PCI adapter cards: one for PATA and the other for SATA.

The chips in the adpter cards are:
Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-ATA/133 Medley RAID
Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATARaid

The PATA card has a BIOS which can be flashed but the SATA card does
not.

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(1) Can I boot off a SATA drive attached to the adapter?

(2) Can I boot off a PATA drive attached to the adapter.

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Thanks


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