Mixing a SATA drive with an IDE

[IGeMex]

Will this work straight forward, adding a IDE drive as slave to a SATA drive, I heard there can be/was issues?

.....adding at same time as a XFX 8800gt !

 

[peterhuang913]

Actually, the SATA drives are independent and they don't have masters or slaves. Adding a SATA drive to an existing IDE setup shouldn't be a problem.

 

[aetherh4cker]

peterhuang913 is right.

SATA drives don't do the whole master / slave thing.

So you'll simply have your SATA drive in the SATA port, and your IDE drive as a master on an IDE cable (or it could be slave if you have something else on that cable already).

I'm doing it with a SATA1.5 and an old IDE drive right now. My computer is 4 years old, and had no issues with it... so I think you should be fine.

 

[IGeMex]

OK cheers alot dudes and dudettes merry fraggin and happy christmas