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  1. July 27th, 2006, 05:42 AM #1
    wheelie007
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    Can SATA 1 and SATA 11 drives co-exist

     
    I am buying a new system. The motherboard has a SATA 11 controller that supports 4 hard drives. The system will come with a 250 gig SATA 11 drive fitted as the bootable drive.

    What I want to know is whether I can fit a 320 gig SATA 1 drive that I have already. The SATA 1 drive will be a slave.

    Will these 2 drives co-exist?

    Motherboard is a Gigabyte S775 GA-965P-DS3.

    Thanks
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  2. July 27th, 2006, 07:42 AM #2
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    Why would you think it wouldn't? What am I missing here?
    One thing I had to do with setting up my sata drive on motherboard was when installing XP I had to streamline a copy of XP with service pack 2 embedded before Xp would instal on the drive.
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  3. July 27th, 2006, 09:19 AM #3
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    It will work fine. I have 2 SATA 1 and 2 SATA II drives in my system and they work great.
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  4. July 27th, 2006, 09:18 PM #4
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    like six said...sata II controllers are backward compatible w/ regular sata drives
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  5. July 27th, 2006, 10:26 PM #5
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    Many thanks for the info guys. I know nothing about SATA drives so wasn't sure if SATA 1 and SATA 11 were compatible.

    I can rest easily now

    cheers
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  6. July 27th, 2006, 10:36 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by sr71000
    like six said...sata II controllers are backward compatible w/ regular sata drives
    YOu will be able to run a SATA II drive on a SATA 1 controller as well.
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  7. July 27th, 2006, 10:37 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpac_XP
    YOu will be able to run a SATA II drive on a SATA 1 controller as well.
    Thanks. Good to know

    cheers
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