SATA and ATA Compatibility

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Geoff said:
with adapters yes
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If you're buying new drives, look at native SATA ones because the
price difference between those and the equivalent ATA-133 ones is
usually quite small. I just bought another Seagate 120Gb SATA drive,
it was about NZ$30 (under US$20) more, plus it had 8Mb cache and 3
year warranty (usually 2Mb, 1 year).

- Geoff T
 
Geoff T said:
"Geoff" <[email protected]> wrote in message

If you're buying new drives, look at native SATA ones because the
price difference between those and the equivalent ATA-133 ones is
usually quite small. I just bought another Seagate 120Gb SATA drive,
it was about NZ$30 (under US$20) more, plus it had 8Mb cache and 3
year warranty (usually 2Mb, 1 year).

- Geoff T
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Wish I'd known this earlier. Even so, the four 120 GB drives I have now each
cost $60 after rebate.

I'll put them on the RAID controller and use adaptors for my IDE CDRW and
DVD burner. Guess I should pop for an SATA drive for the boot disk, though.
 
Pack Fan said:
I'll put them on the RAID controller and use adaptors for my IDE CDRW and
DVD burner. Guess I should pop for an SATA drive for the boot disk, though.
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I had a bit of trouble with getting it to boot off the SATA drive
(cant remember why - could be dumb user syndrome). Windows 2000 needed
the driver disk during the first stage of install. I ended up using my
ATA-100 80Gb drive as my boot drive, with the OS installed on a 120Gb
SATA.

mobo: Asus A7N8X (nForce2)

- Geoff T
 
Geoff T said:
"Pack Fan" <[email protected]> wrote in message though.

I had a bit of trouble with getting it to boot off the SATA drive
(cant remember why - could be dumb user syndrome). Windows 2000 needed
the driver disk during the first stage of install. I ended up using my
ATA-100 80Gb drive as my boot drive, with the OS installed on a 120Gb
SATA.

mobo: Asus A7N8X (nForce2)

- Geoff T
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You can boot off one disk, but have the OS reside on another? I had no idea.
How do you do this? BTW, I have Win 2K Server.

Thanks,

Dave
 
Pack Fan said:
You can boot off one disk, but have the OS reside on another? I had no idea.
How do you do this? BTW, I have Win 2K Server.

Thanks,

Dave
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Yes you can, but I cant remember how I did it :) The win2k installer
might let you specify where the boot sector resides...

Actually something's coming back to me now (but it's hazy, so it'll
probably be wildly inaccurate). I think I already had a previous
install of win2k on another drive (my 80Gb ATA-100)

- Install Win2k to SATA drive, inserting the SATA driver disk when
prompted for SCSI drivers in the first part of the install.
- Normally you would then reboot into the new win2k install, but this
didnt happen for me.
- I booted back into my original win2k install (or you could boot off
CD, maybe using something like Knoppix) and copied the boot files
(boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr etc) from the SATA drive to my ATA-100
one.
- Rebooted, set the boot drive to the ATA-100 drive.

I remember messing around with it a lot, lots of swearing and cursing
the worthless piece of metal and silicon :)

- Geoff T
 
Geoff T said:
"Pack Fan" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Yes you can, but I cant remember how I did it :) The win2k installer
might let you specify where the boot sector resides...

Actually something's coming back to me now (but it's hazy, so it'll
probably be wildly inaccurate). I think I already had a previous
install of win2k on another drive (my 80Gb ATA-100)

- Install Win2k to SATA drive, inserting the SATA driver disk when
prompted for SCSI drivers in the first part of the install.
- Normally you would then reboot into the new win2k install, but this
didnt happen for me.
- I booted back into my original win2k install (or you could boot off
CD, maybe using something like Knoppix) and copied the boot files
(boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr etc) from the SATA drive to my ATA-100
one.
- Rebooted, set the boot drive to the ATA-100 drive.

I remember messing around with it a lot, lots of swearing and cursing
the worthless piece of metal and silicon :)

- Geoff T
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Lot's o' swearing? I usually end up smashing something shortly thereafter.
I'd better stick to the conventional install. :)
 
I remember messing around with it a lot, lots of swearing and cursing
Lot's o' swearing? I usually end up smashing something shortly thereafter.
I'd better stick to the conventional install. :)
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Yeah, I usually manage to restrain myself enough that I dont damage my
hardware :)

It's all working like a dream now - 2 x 120Gb SATA and a 80Gb ATA-100.
Copying between drives is real quick now because they're all on
different channels, plus I think the 8Mb cache has made general use a
lot quicker.

- Geoff T
 
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