will SATA work with both IDE & SCSI disks ?

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Aldo Larrabiata

Two IDE disks and three SCSI are installed on an A7N8X deluxe MoBo (Ver
1.04, BIOS ver 1002 beta 6).
SCSI BIOS is enabled on the AHA2940UW.

I read that SATA is recognized as SCSI. Will this lead to a conflict ?
TIA
 
I do not think so. Each SCSI channel is unique and you can have multiple
SCSI host adapters.
As long as the drivers are correctly installed then there should not be
conflicts.
 
Aldo Larrabiata said:
Two IDE disks and three SCSI are installed on an A7N8X deluxe MoBo (Ver
1.04, BIOS ver 1002 beta 6).
SCSI BIOS is enabled on the AHA2940UW.

I read that SATA is recognized as SCSI. Will this lead to a conflict ?
TIA
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You *might* have a problem if you want to boot from the SATA drive.
 
Thanks to all who answered. I think it's not worth to buy a PATA disk today.
So I'll buy SATA.
 
Aldo said:
Two IDE disks and three SCSI are installed on an A7N8X deluxe MoBo (Ver
1.04, BIOS ver 1002 beta 6).
SCSI BIOS is enabled on the AHA2940UW.

I read that SATA is recognized as SCSI. Will this lead to a conflict ?
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What Doug said. You should have no problems with accessing the drives...
the problem, is that if you want to boot from SATA, you have to set the boot
order to "SCSI" (which basically means the second controller, be it ATA,
SATA, SCSI or whatever). Now, thats ok, but as soon as you install an other
controller (such as your SCSI one), as far as I know, it takes preference in
boot order over the SATA controller.

Oh, and before using SATA, I'd recommend you grab the latest BIOS and
drivers as there are many fixes. Details in my FAQ.

Ben
 
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