Possible problem with Serial hard drive?

[kyrios]

Originally posted here by nihil
Hmmm,

It should not be a problem. Your MoBo has:

1 x IDE drive connection (that will support 2 devices on one cable, i.e. master & slave)

4 x SATA connections (for your hard drives)

Your BIOS should have no trouble in detecting the hard drives, but you may need a driver installation from a floppy/cd/dvd. I would doubt this though, as I would expect that a MoBo that is obviously ONLY intended to use SATA drives would recognise them.

You need to check the MoBo manual.



EDIT: As this is a new board, it should work out of the box, so to speak, and recognise the SATA as the C:\ and try to boot from it.

Thanks Nihil. I am pretty sure you are right. Hopefully it works right out of the box. I think you only need a driver if you have a serial adapter card in one of your PCI slots. Yeah since it has 4 serial connectors I think it's pretty obvious that their shouldn't be any conflicts. I'm hoping for the best.


P.S. Nihil I have been trying to give you +antipoints the last few times and I can't. It says: "You must spread your AntiPoints around before giving it to nihil again."
I do spread them around, it just doesn't let me. Oh well, thanks.

[nihil]

Good luck kyrios,

Please let us know if you have any problems, but you shouldn't have.

They used to be a bit of a pain with SATA I on boards that supported both SATA and PATA drives, but your board is SATA II.

That was another case where you needed to have the drivers ready, but it was more of a problem of recognising the drive and loading the operating system, than any issue with the boot sequence.

[Nokia]

Coincidently i've just finished a system with the same set-up as this.

If you just have a DVD-ROM on your IDE cable set it as master - your BIOS is clever enough to know it is not a hard drive!

A SATA HDD will always boot before an IDE one by default on most new motherboards - to change this just reset the relevent jumper on the MoBo, but it should ship with it set to SATA.

Either way your BIOS will look for a HDD, if it doesnt find one on the IDE bus and knows something in on the SATA one it will look there and vise versa!

There may be other configurations that will work, these are just the ones that worked for me!

//you wont need any additional drivers if it is a new mo bo, the only thing you may have to do is alter a jumper.

[kyrios]

Wow. That sounds awesome Nokia. Good to hear. Thanks. I'll come back later this week
and post how everything went.