SATA and IDE Hard drives question

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I have 3 IDE drives as
Primary Master,
Primary Slave and
Secondary Master

Then I have a SATA HD as Third Master.
Now I want to convert the Primary Slave IDE drive to SATA.
I have bought a IDE to SATA converter, and would like to know how I
should best go about doing the conversion? I gather the present IDe
Slave drive has to be changed to Primary, but how will that affect the
Primary Master IDe drive?

Thanks
 
Bob H said:
I have 3 IDE drives as
Primary Master,
Primary Slave and
Secondary Master

Then I have a SATA HD as Third Master.
Now I want to convert the Primary Slave IDE drive to SATA.
I have bought a IDE to SATA converter, and would like to know how I should
best go about doing the conversion? I gather the present IDe Slave drive
has to be changed to Primary, but how will that affect the Primary Master
IDe drive?

Thanks
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I believe you will find that with IDE/SATA adaptors not sharing an interface
cable with a second drive, like IDE only drives can, that they are all
pretty much considered a Master drive as far as the hard drive itself, much
like USB drive adaptors. So for a secondary IDE drive go ahead and set the
physical drive option to match what the adaptor needs and it should work.
You may need to go into disk management and change the drive letter back to
what it was while being IDE if you want to keep the same drive letter
assigned to the converted drive.

Unless you are changing your boot drive you should not see much of a change
once you get the IDE/SATA adaptor and drive talking together correctly.
Converting an IDE Boot drive to SATA may require loading SATA drivers if the
motherboard BIOS don't recognize the converted drive to say nothing about
changing the order of the boot drives in BIOS.
 
Bob H said:
I have 3 IDE drives as
Primary Master,
Primary Slave and
Secondary Master

Then I have a SATA HD as Third Master.
Now I want to convert the Primary Slave IDE drive to SATA.
I have bought a IDE to SATA converter, and would like to know how I should
best go about doing the conversion? I gather the present IDe Slave drive has
to be changed to Primary, but how will that affect the Primary Master IDe
drive?
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Why do you want to do that at all? You're needlessly adding complexity to the
system, and will not get any better performance.

If you need another SATA drive to free up the IDE slot, just buy a new HD --it's
probably not much more expensive than the "converter"!
 
I do have a 2nd SATA socket on my board, and thats where I would be
plugging in the SATA serial cable from the converter.
 
JR said:
"Bob H" <[email protected]> wrote...
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Yes I agree, in my present sytem, but I am going to upgrade my main
board etc very soon and the one I am going to buuy has 6 SATA sockets
and I think only 1 IDE socket. I am just experimenting to see if what I
want to do will work ok, as I don't want to have to buy new SATA drives yet.
 
I have 3 IDE drives as
Primary Master,
Primary Slave and
Secondary Master

Then I have a SATA HD as Third Master.
Now I want to convert the Primary Slave IDE drive to SATA.
I have bought a IDE to SATA converter, and would like to know how I
should best go about doing the conversion? I gather the present IDe
Slave drive has to be changed to Primary, but how will that affect the
Primary Master IDe drive?

Thanks
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(Backing up data is always a good idea). Mainly, all you're doing is
swapping around variously HDs on controllers (converters, however),
and assigning BIOS points. From there, yes - if the jumpers, cables,
everything is correct, as are corresponding BIOS results - you have a
system go condition: the drives may be launched, as managed via
partitioning software for a valid OS boot.
 
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