Can PATA & SATA HDDs live together in harmony?

[Stez]

I have an Intel D865GLC motherboard (P4 3.0) that supports both PATA and SATA. My existing hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB Ultra ATA/100. I am considering buying a Western Digital WD3200JB/PB as a second hard drive. Can I use both the EIDE and a Serial ATA hard drive together on this system? Should the SATA HD be the primary drive? Can further SATA drives be added later?
Cheers........... Stez

 

[paulrw1]

Yes, they'll live happily togather. Yes you can add more SATA drives later. You MAY have 2 SATA connections on board already. If not, you can add a SATA controller. SATA drivers must be loaded during your OS installation.

SATA drives exist on a single channel, there is no prim./secondary to set. My SATA drive is seen as drive C:

 

[garebo]

I have such a mobo and the manual clearly states they will work together.
If yo dont have a manual for your mobo you can likely at least download a pdf format manual from the mobo mfgrs website.
I only have the ide running at present but the manual states they will work together, and, as already mentioned by someone ahead of me, you have to load sata drivers at the start of win xp setup.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[wolluf]

As mentioned - no problem running SATA and PATA - and can boot from either.