3 Hard Drives Question

[flyersguy85]

Currently I have a 30GB Generic Drive and a 160GB MAxtor Drive. I am getting a new mobo and Athlon 64 3200+ and also a 36.7GB WD Raptor 10,000. If I have the raptor in SATA but the other 2 in PATA..How do i set them up. Do i just connect the IDE cables to the PATAs like normal and then the SATA cable to the raptor? Will the mobo recognize all three hard drives? How do i set the slave/master jumpers for 3?

[drs1771]

The two p-ata drives will connect like usual with one being designated master and the other the slave. The s-ata drive connects to the s-ata controller and is completely seperate from the p-ata controller. There are no jumper settings for '3'. I assume you want to boot from the raptor, so make sure your boot order is set accordingly in the bios.

When Windows is loading, it will ask you to press f6 if you have a scsi or raid driver that needs to be installed. Make sure you do this. Then when it asks, insert the floppy that comes with your motherboard. If it is the MSI you refer to in your sig, it will most likely be a Promise Raid Controller. If your board doesn't come with a floppy, you'll need to make one either from MSI's web site, or the driver cd that comes in the box. Everything else is self explanatory.

[CookIEZ]

Edit: N/M ^^Beat me to it.

[flyersguy85]

Thanks guys