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SATA to IDE Adapter

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kmr13777 Original post #1
May 13, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I have a mother board with 4 SATA ports on them and 1 IDE port. The devices that I have are 2 IDE Hard drives and a DVD Writer. Since I have connected one of my hard drives as Master and the DVD writer as slave, I had to connect the other IDE Hard drive to one of the 4 SATA ports using a SATA to IDE Adapter.

The problem is that the drive connected through this adapter is not being recognized by the system. I have checked the drive and it seems to be spinning. I have a Widows XP professional.

Is there any thing else that I am supposed to do?
kaustav_geek
kaustav_geek #2
May 13, 2007 at 11:32 AM
I have a mother board with 4 SATA ports on them and 1 IDE port. The devices that I have are 2 IDE Hard drives and a DVD Writer. Since I have connected one of my hard drives as Master and the DVD writer as slave, I had to connect the other IDE Hard drive to one of the 4 SATA ports using a SATA to IDE Adapter.
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Firstly, SATA is backward compatible. Hence, you should be able to use your existing PATA(not IDE drives, since the devices viz DVD writer, HDD are IDE devices) HDD drives.

So, I don't think you need an adapter at all..