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| Thread ID: 120863 | 2011-09-29 22:21:00 | Mixing SATA & IDE HDD's | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 1234521 | 2011-09-29 22:21:00 | I’ve been given a 1Tb SATA HDD drive which I thought I might use for storage purposes. Now my Motherboard (ASUS P4S800) has provision for two SATA drives but at the moment all my drives are IDE. The question is whether they will all get along together or whether there will be conflicts, a bit like mixing DDR and SDRAM on boards that support both? :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1234522 | 2011-09-29 22:27:00 | You shouldn't have any issues at all, just make sure the SATA ports are turned on in the BIOS and aren't set to a RAID mode. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1234523 | 2011-09-29 22:44:00 | Yea and also make sure once connected that the BIOS doesn't decide it must boot from the SATA as well. Keep your IDE as the first boot device. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1234524 | 2011-09-30 04:17:00 | Thanks Guys, all installed sweet as. :thumbs: Just one thing, out of curiosity, there are four spare pins with a “L” type socket configuration that are spare. What are they? :confused: :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1234525 | 2011-09-30 04:29:00 | The question is whether they will all get along together or whether there will be conflicts, a bit like mixing DDR and SDRAM on boards that support both? Yes they will get along fine unless some complete baboon designed the motherboard and made it so only one could work (never seen that before though, ever) SATA and IDE are completely separate, and are for connecting any drives, but the board will still POST with no drives at all (you just wouldn't be able to install your operating system!) By comparison, RAM is a critical system component and most memory controllers only support one mode at once, thus you cannot mix types usually. Just one thing, out of curiosity, there are four spare pins with a “L” type socket configuration that are spare. What are they? :confused: Can you be a bit more specific? Where are they located on the board? How big, what colour? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1234526 | 2011-09-30 06:12:00 | Can you be a bit more specific? Where are they located on the board? How big, what colour? Everything seems fine at the moment. There is no OS on the new SATA HDD so that shouldn’t cause a problem. The vacant socket, looking at the back of the HDD, goes Power – Data – Spare. The Spare is a four pin (as opposed to Spade type terminal) with an L shape socket similar to the Data socket. First up I thought it might be a “Master / Slave” configuration but as far as I know SATA doesn’t have Master / Slave and even if it did it wouldn’t have a “L” type socket. Google has not been my friend either, but I must confess I haven’t pursued the subject thinking this would be easy for people on here. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1234527 | 2011-09-30 07:43:00 | Sounds like you're describing jumpers on the rear of the HDD. Maybe check out the model of HDD at the drive manufacturers page. Might be for limiting transfer speeds or available capacity reported to the BIOS, or maybe a delayed spin-up feature at startup. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1234528 | 2011-09-30 22:20:00 | Beats me. :D Belac & Everest both tell me the drive is a ST10000DM000-9TS15E 1000.2GB However, again Google hasn’t been my friend, as searching for that model number brings up nothing at all?????? Well it doesn’t here. :D The Seagate site is of no help either. I guess the big thing is it works and passes the long generic Seagate test. :D As I said earlier the spare socket looks like it should have a cable as opposed to jumpers as it is the "L" shaped (tilted 90 degrees) keyed. :confused: Do Apples and PC's use the same cables? Could it be a connection for an Apple? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1234529 | 2011-09-30 23:28:00 | Can you take a photo of it? | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1234530 | 2011-09-30 23:36:00 | photo available by any chance ?? ... Damn, should have refreshed before posting ... my bad !! | SP8's (9836) | ||
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