I have a question that I don't think has been asked before..

[Spinning Hat]

Ok- I've got the Asus A7N8X Deluxe mainboard, with the onboard SATA controllers, and I was wondering if I enabled the SATA, and got an SATA drive to be the master, would I still be able to use the Primary IDE for a slave drive? I have a CD-RW and DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE, and those are both staying, and I want to add another harddisk to my system, as my 60GB HDD has about 6GB free, and I haven't quite sold the wife on a DVD+/-RW yet.... <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Short answer is yes, at least on similar PATA/SATA boards I've read about. <p></p><i></i>

[Jester DTM]

I have the same board, and have read alot about it, can't member where I read the stuff one of those tech geek sites that Gambit usually points people to. The impression I got was that it didn't matter where the Master was. <p><table><tr><td><b<table><tr><td><b><a href="mailto:jester@thzclan.com">996</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com>Cerberus of THZ*</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>XMEN</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Merc</a> </b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/planetside>Allied Tribal Forces</a></b></td> <td> <img src="http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/jester/si ... ></tr><img src="http://www.danasoft.com/sig/THZJesterDT ... </p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

So If I enable an SATA drive as the master, I don't lose the primary IDE controller? For some reason I thought that the SATA would take away the IRQs associated with the Primary IDE. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Correct, it shouldn't interfere. You can have both controllers active at the same time. <br><br>AFAIK. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>

[Jester DTM]

On our board the SATA acts as a Raid. So it shouldn't be any different than a standard raid array <p><table><tr><td><b<table><tr><td><b><a href="mailto:jester@thzclan.com">996</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com>Cerberus of THZ*</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>XMEN</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Merc</a> </b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/planetside>Allied Tribal Forces</a></b></td> <td> <img src="http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/jester/si ... ></tr><img src="http://www.danasoft.com/sig/THZJesterDT ... </p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

I don't want RAID... I just want 2 Hard Drives in my system so I can expand my storage space. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

I doubt you'd be able to run RAID across the different interfaces. It seems pretty unlikely to be supported in hardware. But possible - there's such things as software RAID these days. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

Jester, you need to fix your sig or something... everytime you post, you squish the message text more and more.....<br><br>I'm not concerned with running RAID at all... I just want to take advantage of having true SATA performance, and take advantage of the increases it involves, and increase storage capacity. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[lynxbat]

Hat, I don't know about the ASUS board but on my ABIT IS7 you can run both the SATA and IDE at the same time or disable either from the bios. They are independent of each other. I assume that if ABIT does it ASUS does. I have 2x40gb IDE right now and I am adding a 80gb SATA as soon as maxtor sends me the replacement drive. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL133/103 ... 214513.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

[Jester DTM]

Don't worry Hat, after today I won't be posting for another year and a half. <p><table><tr><td><b<table><tr><td><b><a href="mailto:jester@thzclan.com">996</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com>Cerberus of THZ*</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>XMEN</a></b><br><b><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Merc</a> </b><br><b><a href=http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/planetside>Allied Tribal Forces</a></b></td> <td> <img src="http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/jester/si ... ></tr><img src="http://www.danasoft.com/sig/THZJesterDT ... </p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

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[Spinning Hat]

<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> That's not the point man... I know you're going, and that sucks. BUt the formatting here is all fubared.. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br>Thanks for the info Lynxbat. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

The formatting is fubared, yes, but IE is sloppy and forgives this particular error. In my case anyway. <p></p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

I checked it in IE, and it does forgive whatever formatting error that's occuring, but I use Firebird, and it's not so forgiving. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>