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74 GB Raptor Question

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flippy2k

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I just orderd a 74 GB Raptor and a 120GB 7200 RPM IDE.... what kind of cables do I need for those. I know that the regular IDE cables will work for the 120GB one... but... what kind of cable do I used to connect the two?

Will this work...

http://www.xoxide.com/bl.html

thanks!!
 
That Serial ATA cable will only work with the Raptor (and other SATA hard drives). But your 120GB hard drive is a PATA hard drive. In this case, if you want to use both hard drives in the same PC, you will need both cables, since SATA allows only one drive per channel.
 
Thanks man... does the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum for 939 sockets alow you to have an IDE drive and an SATA?

Also... I thought that they connected through the same cable, so that one of them was the master and one was the slave... can you still do that even though they are one different cables?
 
It has both IDE and SATA connectors.

Apologize for the linklessness, but the MSI website does have the Neo2 manual available now as a PDF. Sitting on my HD currently. Tells you all you need to know and then some.

For example, VDimm goes to 2.85V currently.
 
flippy2k said:
Thanks man... does the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum for 939 sockets alow you to have an IDE drive and an SATA?

Also... I thought that they connected through the same cable, so that one of them was the master and one was the slave... can you still do that even though they are one different cables?
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IDE and SATA are two completely different connectors. Thus, an SATA cable will not fit an IDE socket - or vice-versa.
 
I understand that, but... how can you do the master/slave without them being connected through the same cable? Or does it even matter.

Sorry I am so ignorant in this subject, but I am not really sure.. thanks!!
 
flippy2k said:
I understand that, but... how can you do the master/slave without them being connected through the same cable? Or does it even matter.

Sorry I am so ignorant in this subject, but I am not really sure.. thanks!!
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Actually, the current implementation of SATA supports only a single drive per channel (cable). Thus, whether the drive is master or slave is irrelevant there. In fact, most SATA drives lack even master/slave jumpers. (In other words, you cannot connect two SATA drives on the same cable - it's physically impossible to do so.)

As for your IDE drive being able to be set to master or slave, you make such settings as usual.

And it also depends on the operating system: On Intel-powered systems using the 865/875/848 or later chipsets, Windows 2000, Windows XP and the newer builds of Linux can support SATA/PATA controllers in "native" (or "enhanced") mode. This means that you can use as many SATA and PATA drives as your controller allows. But Windows 9x, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 and earlier and the older builds of Linux only support these newer controllers in "compatible" (or "legacy") mode. That means that you can only use two of the four available ATA channels from such chipsets. So, if you're using two SATA drives under such OSes, then you cannot use any PATA/IDE drives at all without purchasing an add-on PATA/IDE controller card. Likewise, if you're using an SATA hard drive and a PATA hard drive under those OSes, then you must daisy-chain any PATA/IDE optical drives as slave onto the same IDE cable as your PATA/IDE hard drive (but many DVD drives are allergic to being set as Slave). And if you're using PATA/IDE hard drives and any PATA/IDE optical drives on both PATA/IDE channels under those legacy OSes, then you cannot use any SATA hard drives without spending money on a separate add-on SATA controller card.

If on the other hand you're using an AMD-powered system on most motherboards with an nForce2 chipset and SATA ports, then your SATA ports are most likely run off of a separate SATA controller chip embedded on your mobo. In this case, it doesn't matter which OS you're running, since such separate SATA controllers are treated as SCSI controllers under Windows.

And of course, "primary" channels always have higher priority than "secondary" channels of either interface.
 
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