Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Connecting an SATA to an IDE-only motherboard

**belfasteddie** · 01-27-2008, 05:08 PM

I would imagine the Sata2 will just downgrade itself to the connector specs.
On a Motherboard that takes Sata and Ide as per normal then the Master/Slave relationship doesn't come into affect. You simply go into the Bios and set the First disk priority.
However if your board doesn't accept Sata then I don't know what will happen.
With regard to Windows and Linux or any other O/S , Windows should always be the 1st O/S on the 1st partition of the 1st H/D. Reason, Windows will always overwrite the MBR.

01-27-2008, 05:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
belfasteddie Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Belfast N.I. Posts: 1,551 OS: Puppy Linux 4.12	Re: Connecting an SATA to an IDE-only motherboard I would imagine the Sata2 will just downgrade itself to the connector specs. On a Motherboard that takes Sata and Ide as per normal then the Master/Slave relationship doesn't come into affect. You simply go into the Bios and set the First disk priority. However if your board doesn't accept Sata then I don't know what will happen. With regard to Windows and Linux or any other O/S , Windows should always be the 1st O/S on the 1st partition of the 1st H/D. Reason, Windows will always overwrite the MBR. Last edited by belfasteddie; 01-27-2008 at 05:11 PM.