The concept of Master and Slave does not apply to SATA drives, because
each drive has its own cable. Presumably the IDE drive would be the
master and the cd rom the slave.
What you really mean, I suspect, is what is the boot drive, and you
**should** be able to set that to the IDE drive in the BIOS. (Some BIOS
can be cantankerous, however.) Look in your BIOS and see what the
choices are.
Your "I would think" comment is the crux of whether or not this will
work. Since I have never done this kind of dual boot, I have no idea
whether it would work or not. However, I don't share your confidence.
Since nobody else has responded to this question, as I recall, they have
never done it or forgot what they did. :) It is not a sure thing,
however. As I recall the last time I set up a SATA drive, there was
some stuff that had to be set in the BIOS. (Can someone help me here,
please?) It was two years ago at my last upgrade, and I have forgotten
what it entailed. First I went with a Raid setup, then I went back to
single drive. It is all confused in my mind. :) At any rate, I am not
so certain that it will work....
The real value of the SATA drive in your type of setup would be
increased speed. You should be able to do just as well by adding an IDE
drive with a large cache - most of them have large caches these days.
Then you won't even have to face this issue...
HTH
Dean
----- Original Message -----
From: "john freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Sata & IDE Hard drives
Thanks for the answer. I can easily install the OS's
on the IDE drive and then it probably would not matter
since I would think that if Win98 doesn't understand a
SATA drive it would show only one drive and XP would
show both drives. The only question I have then would
be does the jumper setting on the drives determine
master and slave or is there some priority given
because one drive would be SATA and one drive IDE?
John
--- "Dean K. Kukral" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> First of all, Windows ME does not support SATA, so
> whether or not you
> can do what you want is somewhat questionable
> because of the dual-boot.
> (Someone else may have done this. I remember that I
> kept ME for two
> years before I had to go to XP because I wanted to
> use SATA.)
>
> Assuming (not a sure thing) that you can use both
> operating systems in
> an XP-dominant dual-boot system, how you can mix and
> match the drives
> depends somewhat on your motherboard. You
> **should** be able to use
> both drives; I have been able to use both kinds of
> drives on my XP
> systems. You will need the SATA drivers for your
> motherboard.
>
> Then, again, you could put ME on one older disk and
> XP on the new SATA
> disk and plug/unplug the disk that you want. That
> would work best if
> you had to have ME, but only used it rarely.
>
> I know that this is not as much help as you may
> like, but it might get
> you started in your plans. I'm sure that others
> will give you more
> help, too.
>
> Dean Kukral
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:00 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Sata & IDE Hard drives
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an Intel D865G mobo that seems to give me the
> ability to have
> either Sata or IDE hdd's. Right now I have a 120Gig
> and a 40Gig that
> are both IDE. But I'm probably going to have to
> replace the 120Gig
> drive. Can I go to a Sata hdd and still keep the
> IDE drive? I'm
> dual-booting 98se and xp sp2 and would like to keep
> that because I have
> some programs that will not work on xp no matter
> what. Does that make a
> difference? And then if I can mix the drives do I
> configure them master
> and slave as I'm used to? And is there a preference
> of one or the other
> as the master? Thanks for any advice you guys can
> give.
>
> John
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