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Answer» I have an old machine that I am REFURBISHING. It is about 5 years old. It has two hard DRIVES and I want to replace the MASTER hard drive with one that is SATA driven and the SLAVE hard drive with an unused one that I have had for several year that is IDE. I know that my motherboard has SATA/RAID ability as I have recently replaced my DVD burner with one that is SATA driven and it works fine. QUESTION: Can I mix the two drives, and do I have to jumper them or somehow identify them as MASTER and SLAVE? Thanks for reading this, JIM Quote QUESTION: Can I mix the two drives, and do I have to jumper them or somehow identify them as MASTER and SLAVE? The drives will have independent controllers so there is no problem and no need to jumper master/slave. The "ide" drive can be jumpered as Master or Slave on its controller depending on whether or not ANOTHER device is connected to that controller, there is no master/slave jumpering with SATA drives. Whichever drive contains the OS should be set in bios. Quote from: jim.mar on August 07, 2009, 02:06:17 PM I have an old machine that I am refurbishing. It is about 5 years old. It has two hard drives and I want to replace the MASTER hard drive with one that is SATA driven and the SLAVE hard drive with an unused one that I have had for several year that is IDE. I know that my motherboard has SATA/RAID ability as I have recently replaced my DVD burner with one that is SATA driven and it works fine. QUESTION: Can I mix the two drives, and do I have to jumper them or somehow identify them as MASTER and SLAVE? Thanks for reading this, JIM Your existing motherboard is probably only SATA I, if so then I would suggest buying a SATA II controller addon card to control the SATA drive, which I would make the root drive. I assume that based on the age that you stated. |
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