im currentlly using a 120 gb sata hard disk on my gigabyte motheboard, ive just aquired a 300gb hard disk aswell, trouble is its an ide hard disk, can i use both on the same motherboard?
2006-12-03 22:36:09 · 7 answers · asked by jamie3984 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It depends on the specific motherboard.
SATA is still "new" enough that most all motherboards still have IDE connections.
Worst case,,,
*you can use an add-on PCI slot card /IDE controller,,
*Or mount the drive in a external case w/ a USB connection.
*A EIDE DRIVE to SATA Adapter
All of those are " $20~30 solutions",,or Less
Also,,there's no compatibility issues using SATA and IDE at same time
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=eide+to+sata+adapter
2006-12-03 22:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
short answer probably yes. but as another guy said it depends on the mother board.
personally though my DFI Lanparty board is currently running 4 SATA Hard Drives, 2 PATA (IDE) Hard Drives and 2 DVD Burners.
so in my case yes definately running ide and sata.
A gigabyte brand board? then yes if it has the nforce3 250 or later chipset such as the one in my neighbours system ( i recently built him) using a gigabyte GA-K8NS (K8 Triton Series) board and an amd athlon 64 CPU.
2006-12-04 08:06:12 · answer #2 · answered by thebestnamesarealreadytaken0909 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes from ide 1 to dvd rom then to ide 300gb hd disk but you might have to set the hd as slave. hope this help`s ?
2006-12-04 06:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by richard d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the mobo. I have both on mine, my master is SATA and my slave is IDE. Do you have the wiring slot for IDE? If so then you might be able to, if not, you can always buy an external kit for it and hook it up USB.
2006-12-04 06:38:38 · answer #4 · answered by al_minneapolis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
or get a pci card with the ide cotrollers on it so you can keep it all internal
2006-12-04 06:47:34 · answer #5 · answered by mrs microchipper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can
2006-12-04 06:47:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/IDE.htm
2006-12-08 04:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by flymetothemoon279 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋