RE: Adding IDE card to SATA motherboard
- From: "Roberto Malinverni" <roberto.malinverni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:55:00 +0200
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:47:11 +0200
From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Adding IDE card to SATA motherboard
There's a good chance that my next motherboard won't have enough IDE
ports, and I've got too much IDE hardware to junk it and buy SATA. How
well do PCI cards that add IDE ports work? Any known gotchas? Does the
OS see them as different from the M/B's IDE ports? Specifically, I
need to run two DVD burners and two 400 GB hard drives, all IDE, on a
motherboard with one IDE controller and one SATA controller. Should
the hard drives be on the M/B, and the burners (rarely used) on the
card, or vice versa?
I have two Hamlet PCI controller (20 € each) with one IDE port (2 devices)
and two sata port
in two different PC - an old machine (2001) and a new one (2007) and they
perform
quite well in both cases with ultra-ata maxtor hard drives.
After installation, the boot of the machine was the first time slower than
usual, then it
returned to normal values. The PCI cards added their own bios to the boot
sequence, with
a special key to enter their setup function if needed.
They worked absolutely out of the box.
As for which devices connect to the MB and which to the card, the only thing
that you
have to keep in mind is that not all PCI card are "bootable" (mine are not,
for instance so I use them for
storage only). The performance is the same.
Roberto Malinverni
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