SATA Boot Drive

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I have an XP machine that has 1 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives. I have
removed 1 drive or another for different reasons. When I did that, I
had to change the boot drive in the BIOS. I learned that if I had the
boot drive plugged into SATA 0, I would not have change the BIOS to
get it to boot.

I have another machine with 5 SATA ports. 2 are wite marked SATA3-0
and SATA3-1. 3 of the ports are blue and marked SATA2-2,3,4

1) Should the boot drive be plugged into SATA3-0
2) Why should SATA3 start at 0
 
NoWay said:
I have an XP machine that has 1 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives. I have
removed 1 drive or another for different reasons. When I did that, I
had to change the boot drive in the BIOS. I learned that if I had the
boot drive plugged into SATA 0, I would not have change the BIOS to
get it to boot.

I have another machine with 5 SATA ports. 2 are wite marked SATA3-0
and SATA3-1. 3 of the ports are blue and marked SATA2-2,3,4

1) Should the boot drive be plugged into SATA3-0
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Is it a HDD that supports SATA3? Why would you want your OS partition
to be on a slower SATA2 HDD? "2 SATA drives" says nothing about whether
or not they are SATA3 or SATA2 devices.
2) Why should SATA3 start at 0
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Why not? They're positioning the faster support with the first port.
SATA2 and SATA3 refer to performance, not priority or order. The
assumption is if you buy a motherboard with SATA3 HDD ports that you
intend to use SATA3 HDDs. You get a SATA3 HDD along with the SATA3 mobo
(you get them together). The SATA2 ports you use for those old drives
you migrate from your old system.
 
I have an XP machine that has 1 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives. I have
removed 1 drive or another for different reasons. When I did that, I
had to change the boot drive in the BIOS. I learned that if I had the
boot drive plugged into SATA 0, I would not have change the BIOS to
get it to boot.
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When I take a MB w/ 1 IDE & 2 SATA ports, binary transfer XP from
another system on the IDE drive/channel, fix it to work, then binary
transfer *that* onto a 1T SATA (partition same size, OS fixed and runs
perfectly off the IDE w/ all the MB SATA chipset drivers etc), XP
freezes. For the price of a floppy to transfer the MB's sata drivers
into a fresh, possibly a xp recovery if not install, I could try
Singapore for $4 IDE adapter > Compact Flash card, stick a $10 4G
Sandisk in it, run a Sandisk software util for drive emulation, and
stuff that up XP's pipeline. Or, for the same $4 could also try a
SATA > IDE adapter. Floppies really suck.
 
When I take a MB w/ 1 IDE & 2 SATA ports, binary transfer XP from
another system on the IDE drive/channel, fix it to work, then binary
transfer *that* onto a 1T SATA (partition same size, OS fixed and runs
perfectly off the IDE w/ all the MB SATA chipset drivers etc), XP
freezes. For the price of a floppy to transfer the MB's sata drivers
into a fresh, possibly a xp recovery if not install, I could try
Singapore for $4 IDE adapter > Compact Flash card, stick a $10 4G
Sandisk in it, run a Sandisk software util for drive emulation, and
stuff that up XP's pipeline. Or, for the same $4 could also try a
SATA > IDE adapter. Floppies really suck.
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Apparently so did grammar school!!!!!
 
Apparently so did grammar school!!!!!
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I'm glad there's someone more incomprehensible than me <g>

--
"Shit this is it, all the pieces do fit.
We're like that crazy old man jumping
out of the alleyway with a baseball bat,
saying, "Remember me motherfucker?"
Jim “Dandy” Mangrum
 
Apparently so did grammar school!!!!!
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You're within ten-percentile probability of being prejudiced over 100G
OCZ SDD for $150, Grammarian Tetracyclin Second Class.
 
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