SATA/PATA question

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THRESHIN

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i'm sure a bunch of idiots like myself have asked this question, so if i've missed it in the stickeys then i'm sorry. if you want to be lazy, a simple yes/no is good enough for me.

next system i build i want to use SATA (of course) but i want to keep my IDE optical drives. how does this work? can i simply get a board with both and keep the HDDs on SATA and the optical drives on PATA?

thanks!
 
Indeed you can.

You will have in your BIOS.

Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave
First SATA Master
Second SATA Master
.... (however many SATA ports your chipset provides, some only provide two, while most current ones provide four.)

On 9xx Intel chipsets, you will only have a Primary Master and Slave, as Intel has reduced PATA support on 9xx chipsets to one port/cable. This limitation does not affect ATI, NV, Sis, or Via chipsets.
 
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