SATA and PATA - co-exist?

2 Apr 2005 10:44 AM

Bobby

I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
it's been a long story ;-)

I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.

But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two settings
(MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).

Is it possible to do what I want to do?

If so, how?

Cheers.

Bobby

2 Apr 2005 12:16 PM

RBM

It wouldn't be a slave to a sata drive, so unless you are setting it as
slave to another ide drive, make it a master and in the bios, disable it as
a boot drive
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"Bobby" <bo***@aventuremail.com> wrote in message
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>I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
> it's been a long story ;-)
>
> I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.
>
> But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two
> settings
> (MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
> what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).
>
> Is it possible to do what I want to do?
>
> If so, how?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bobby
>
>

2 Apr 2005 12:48 PM

kony

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:44:16 +0100, "Bobby"
<bo***@aventuremail.com> wrote:

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>I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
>it's been a long story ;-)
>
>I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.
>
>But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two settings
>(MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
>what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).
>
>Is it possible to do what I want to do?
>
>If so, how?
>
>Cheers.
>
>Bobby
>

Slave setting removes all jumpers, IIRC, but I'd just jumper
to Cable Select, that IS why it's there (and how most drives
arrive from factory too).

2 Apr 2005 2:36 PM

Mike Walsh

Make the PATA drive master. Configure the system BIOS to boot from SATA (it might be listed as SCSI) before IDE.

Bobby wrote:
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>
> I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that
> it's been a long story ;-)
>
> I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.
>
> But I can't find a jumper setting on the old drive to do this. Two settings
> (MASTER and CS) make it my boot drive and the other two settings (I forget
> what they're called) make the drive invisible to Windows (XP, SP2).
>
> Is it possible to do what I want to do?
>
> If so, how?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bobby

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

3 Apr 2005 6:53 PM

Timothy Daniels

"Bobby" wrote:
>I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive [.......]
> I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave.

    Why do you want to make it a Slave? What would that do?
    In the P-ATA world, all that does is make it second to
    whatever is the Master in the *default* HD boot priority,
    and that priority is arbitrary and can be rearranged by
    manual selection in the BIOS. But relative to S-ATA drives,
    Master/Slave has no meaning, and the default boot priority
    is set by a different rule.

*TimDaniels*