EIDE TO SATA

[ky1e]

Hey guys

I built my computer a couple years ago it has an ASUS A7N8X nForce 2 Deluxe motherboard. At the time, I put a EIDE WD Caviar 80 gb hd into it. Since then, the hard drive got a virus or something, and isn't working anymore.

I want to replace my hard drive so I can have a running system again. I'm not familiar with the SATA hard drives, or the differences between the different types. My question is:

If I put say a WD SATA hard drive in, will this be compatible with my motherboard and my system? (I will probably put Linux on it)

I looked up my motherboard and it had these specs for what I'm lookin at:

IDE Ports 

2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33

Serial ATA (Deluxe Model) 

Silicon Image® Sil 3112A Controller with 2 ports

Support RAID 0/1

Thanks a bunch for any help!!

 

[dandragonrage]

Your board will support a SATA drive just fine. A LOT of us on this forum used to use that motherboard.

If you use a SATA drive with Windows XP on that board, you will need to get the SiI3112 drivers on a floppy and press F6 at Windows setup start to load them, or you will need to add the drivers into your CD with nLite. I don't know if Vista or W7 support the SiI3112 out of the box because it's been a while since I've used a SiI3112 controller. Any recent version of Linux will be fine.

 

[ky1e]

Cool yeah I've been out of the computer area for a while and it's crazy how much shit has changed (at least so it seems). Thanks for the input though! I think I'm just going to get a SATA drive and use Linux so according to what you said, I wouldn't have to load any new drivers correct?

Thanks again

Edit: I will also probably be loading Ubuntu on it.