SATA & IDE HDDs on Same System

[kwinsw]

Hi,

I have two systems to which I'm adding new SATA drives as the main system drive. In one system I'm using an add-in PCI SATA controller, the other has onboard SATA. In both machines I want to use the old IDE drives for extra storage/backups.

As far as I can see, and I've looked, neither the motherboard nor the add in card have any options that allow me to force the system to boot from SATA.

As a consequence, whenever I add an IDE drive, even set to slave on the slave channel, the PC can't find the boot media and won't boot.

Can anyone suggest a fix? Is there something elementary I'm doing wrong?

Any help much appreciated.

KWINSW

 

[dbData]

Check your BIOS for Boot Sequence. If you don't have a setting for external controller, try SCSI if it's available. Unless your have a built-in SCSI controller, SCSI will be assumed as an external controller. It's something to try.



Rick

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[kwinsw]

Thanks dbData, I'll give that a shot.

What if there's no external option in the main BIOS. Is there any other workaround?

 

[PRPhx]

The bad news is, IF you have both an IDE and a SATA drive in your computer, you are going to:

1) Rebuilt the OS

2) Have the SATA drives available, on floppy

3) When you begin the install, press the F6 key. This will notify the OS install that you have SCSI or other drivers that need installing.

4) The OS will want temp space on the IDE drive and install at least a part of the OS on the IDE drive.

More than likely, your computer will see the SATA drives as scsi. It's not big deal, other than you have to reinstall the OS in order to get both the IDE and SATA drives to operate.

I've gone thru this myself. Set up the OS on a SATA drive, which worked fine.