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Dim8300 IDE-SATA details
Hi everbody
I have a Dimension 8300 with two IDE HD and 2 CD-ROM.
Now I need a larger HD and have seen that there are two SATA connectors on the board too.
How do IDE and SATA go together here on this mainboard?
- Could I use all connections together, mean 2x2 IDE and 1x2 SATA?
- Is this IDE *OR* ATA or can I happily mix everything together?
- What about the boot drive? Can it be anywhere?
Havent found anything on this in the manual.
Thanks for your assistance.
Happy easter
rgds
Thomas
I have a Dimension 8300 with two IDE HD and 2 CD-ROM.
Now I need a larger HD and have seen that there are two SATA connectors on the board too.
How do IDE and SATA go together here on this mainboard?
- Could I use all connections together, mean 2x2 IDE and 1x2 SATA?
- Is this IDE *OR* ATA or can I happily mix everything together?
- What about the boot drive? Can it be anywhere?
Havent found anything on this in the manual.
Thanks for your assistance.
Happy easter
rgds
Thomas
- Hi mate, i got the dim8300 as well. Ive only got the one ide hardrive and i just added a 400gb 16mb buffer sata drive.My ide drive has got my operating system on it and my sata is just a storage drive. i have mine connected to the sata2 terminal and im having no problems whatsoever
- Broxi,
>>My ide drive has got my operating system on it and my sata is just a storage drive. i have mine connected to the sata2 terminal and im having no problems whatsoever
That used to be my setup too on my 8300. Don't know why so many here think it can't be done. Otoh, check what *my* problem is now with a Primary SATA as boot, Secondary SATA storage, ATA storage (all 160GB Seagates) in the " New SATA/ATA drive(s) write speed problem" thread.
Best,
jb
kjharris
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Posted April 15th, 2006 13:00
If you add a SATA drive it will probably have to be the boot drive. There have been a number of posts about this previously(do a search) and almost all have said they were not able to boot from the PATA(commonly called IDE) drive once a SATA drive was installed.
Ken