Will my mobo support up to 4 hard drives with IDE and SATA?

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Gareth J M Saunders

Hi folks,

I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120
GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW

It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2. "Both connectors are
fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
connector can connect to 1 hard disk device."

My question: Am I right in thinking then that could connect a further 2 hard
drives (SATA) to this setup, giving me 4 x hard drives in all?

Thanks in advance,

Gareth J M Saunders
Edinburgh UK
 
I had a K7N2-ILSR board using the sata connectors to boot from in a raid 1
configuration the ports only support 2 drives.I had nothing but problems
with this board from day one, finally built another box with a different
board ans resigned that board to the bone yard.The raid setup worked but was
unstable, hope this helps.
 
Thanks, you guys.

I also meant to say that I use Windows XP Professional, but I guess you
assumed that since I posted to an XP newsgroup. ;)

Thanks again,

Gareth
 
Immaterial, as the question you asked had nothing to do with the
operating system, and technically is off topic.
 
Hi folks,

I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120
GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW

It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2. "Both connectors are
fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
connector can connect to 1 hard disk device."

My question: Am I right in thinking then that could connect a further 2 hard
drives (SATA) to this setup, giving me 4 x hard drives in all?
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Yes, you're right. You may need to enable the SATA controller in BIOS. That
in turn means you should check for updated controller drivers at the
motherboard manufacturer's web site.
 
Hi folks,

I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120
GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW

It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2. "Both connectors are
fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
connector can connect to 1 hard disk device."

My question: Am I right in thinking then that could connect a further 2 hard
drives (SATA) to this setup, giving me 4 x hard drives in all?

Thanks in advance,

Gareth J M Saunders
Edinburgh UK
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Ask in an appropriate group. What your mainboard will or won't
support in terms of hard drives has NOTHING to do with WinXP.
 
Gareth, according to this Spec, yes you can do that.


On-Board IDE

. An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with
PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
. Can connect up to four IDE devices




Serial ATA Interface

. Support 2 serial ATA + 1 ATA133
- RAID O or 1 are supported
- RAID function works w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
. Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device
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Refrain from posting binaries to a text newsgroup. I didn't want your
crappy pictures on my hard drive.
 
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