Well all I can say to hopefully help you out / is buy a PCI card SATA controller / I have helped three friends out now with computer builds / we spent gads of time on trying to stabilize two of them when using a combination of Sata , ide / the third system we didnt even go for the contoller fight / spent the $35.00 or $40.00 at newegg.com and (for all three machines) and lived happily ever after / My personal opinion (which isnt worth a cup of coffee) is the IDE controller at this time is unable to uniformily and reliably run all those configurations !!! even when you are using the promise and fastrak , silicon contollers etc / they all have to work in conjunction with the IDE controller and that just plain gets messy !!
The pci card sata contoller has its own bios therfore runs alot more independently than the onboard versions / I dont doubt in the near future the mobo (all of them !!) makers will iron out the kinks in the controllers / but for now it just doesnt make sense to fight an uphill battle.
I have seen some systems wake up and run right after you remove all ide drives from the system until the OS gets loaded and becomes stable / then added the ide drives and they ran alright
I have tried systems that adding the ide drives while trying to get the OS smoothed out made it stabilize better ???
I have seen several posts in here where the sata drives got up and running and then performance just slowly erroded until the drives got soooo slow they crashed. But I havent seen anyone complaining of performance problems or configuration problems when using the sata card controllers.
go figure ?????
regards
joe
Last edited by linderman; 07-30-2005 at 06:21 PM.
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