SATA & IDE HDD at the same time?

I am planning on building a new system in the next month or so with the Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo. I want to have a Raptor on the SATA controller to use as my boot drive along with 2 WD SE 120GB IDEs from my old system.

I saw *one* post where someone said that using the SATA controller would eliminate one of the IDE channels and I can't find any others to back it up. Can anyone verify or refute this? In the end, I would like my system to have the 1 SATA HDD, 2 IDE HDD, and 2 IDE CD/DVD drives, plus a good ole FDD.

Any help is appreciated.

bsgk

That's nonsense. You can use PATA and SATA simultaneously. It would be a rather silly design flaw otherwise.

Correct. The ASUS board SATA controller is an addition to the nForce2 dual IDE controllers. There is no conflict.

I haven't explored this on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe yet, but my MSI nForce1 with SATA PCI boots first to IDE, so I needed a boot manager of some kind (WinXP Pro) to redirect boot from IDE to SATA.