Sata mode "ide"?

hi there


basically i am trying to configure my p.c to use my 160gb sata drive as primary,my 120gb pata drive as a storage drive and a dvdrw as a single optical drive


i have looked in my mobo manual and it says i need to set sata mode to "ide",then onchip serial ata to [enhanced]


i apparenly then can use up to 2 x sata drives and then 4 ide drives(2 master and 2 slave)


is this correct?and of not how do you configure this?


also when you add just 1 ide drive into the ide1 sockey(when sata 1 is primary)what jumper setting do you set the ide drive(master or slave)


cheers guys !

Sata mode "ide"?
Assuming you do not have any OS installed on the PATA drive then the bios will not boot form that one.





Assuming your OS is on the SATA drive and does not boot up, then you need to select in your bios which device to use.





In my bios (and in many) you select IDE or "bootable addin cards" (which are your SATA ports).





If I select "none" then the bios will try to boot off IDE, CDROM etc. If I select "bootable add-in cards" then the bios will boot from the SATA ports first.





Depending on your BIOS, you may be able to select which SATA drive the bios boots off.





I have 6 SATA drives and 1 IDE in my PC, I used to boot off the IDE, but now it just boots from the SATA drive with the OS on. Of course the bios cannot boot from SATA drives which does not have a OS on, though it may try to if it has a boot record on it.





Get the SATA drive to boot first without the IDE one plugged in, get that working first, then put your IDE drive in. I don't know if the IDE is a new drive (IE blank) but if you have problems you can always format it.





You will have to look at your bios manual to configure the boot drives. Normally it is just called "bootable add-in cards" but it could be called other things. A little research is needed!





SATA drives do not have a master/slave select.





IDE drives do, jumpers are normally marked on the drive somewhere. 1 master and 1 slave per IDE cable.





Regardless of setting, if the bios is set to boot from SATA then it will not touch the IDE drives (try to boot ). Only thing you have to do is select the jumpers on the IDE drives.





I personally would forget IDE drives and just use SATA drives anyway.
Reply:sata-master


ide-slave





you can also do it on the bio, which is much more easier
Reply:First things first, you need to make sure there is no boot record on the PATA drive you are using.





The reason for this is that some computers for some reason still search for a boot record off PATA before SATA.





If there was an installation of windows on the PATA drive, the computer will most likely try to boot off that first.





As far as what jumper you need to set the drive at, MASTER is the proper jumper setting for a single drive configuration.

wreath