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August 13th, 2004, 12:09 PM
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I have the Soyo KT600 Dragon Ultra Platinum Mobo which supports both SATA and IDE harddrive connection. I was wondering if you could have IDE and SATA configured HDD's coexisting, like can you have a system with both SATA and IDE harddrives?
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August 13th, 2004, 12:39 PM
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You should have no problem running both SATA and IDE drives as long as one is master and the other one is the slave.
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August 13th, 2004, 12:44 PM
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What if I already had a master and a slave configuration? For instance two IDE harddrives on the same cable, one master and one slave. Could I configure an SATA HDD or perhaps more than one SATA HDD to act independently from the IDE ones? | |
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August 13th, 2004, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BattleToad What if I already had a master and a slave configuration? For instance two IDE harddrives on the same cable, one master and one slave. Could I configure an SATA HDD or perhaps more than one SATA HDD to act independently from the IDE ones? | As far as I know you can only use 1 HD as Master, wether it is a SATA or IDE drive.
Could be wrong though.
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August 13th, 2004, 01:07 PM
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I have 2 SATA H.D. both are as master in a RAID 0 configuration.
I used a IDE Master + 1 DVD master+1CDROM slave with no problems.
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August 13th, 2004, 01:10 PM
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When you have two in a RAID config does it show up as two seperate hdd's or as one large one? But I could run like 2 hdd's as IDE on one cable, one master and one slave, then have my DVD-RW and my DVD-rom in my other IDE slot on my mobo one as master and one as slave, and then also have a RAID config with two more? That would work? Not that I'm going to do it but theoretically thats plausible? | |
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August 13th, 2004, 01:29 PM
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August 13th, 2004, 02:09 PM
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August 23rd, 2004, 11:08 AM
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I am new to this type of forum. If I understand correctly what I am reading in the posts above, it is possible to install a SATA drive and still be able to use the IDE ports to add additional drives. Can anyone explain how to configure the drives. I want to be able to use the SATA drive as my boot drive and then install a 120Gb IDE drive in the primary IDE port. I then would like to install a DVD Burner in the secondary IDE Port as the master and a 52X cd burner in the secondary IDE Port and a slave. Can someone please confirm if this will work????? | |
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August 23rd, 2004, 11:17 AM
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As I understand it, you can have only one SATA drive on a cable anyway, so it's always a master. The only real issue is which is to be your primary boot drive, and you'll set that in the BIOS. | 
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