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Re: ide 1, 2 SATA 1, 2

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Aug 14th, 2004

thanks cat, finaly someone doesnt sound stupid trying to be a smart*** and doing a s**** job at it..

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Re: ide 1, 2 SATA 1, 2

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Aug 14th, 2004

Crazy_M, that criticism of people who have answered is unwarranted.

You've not stated your question clearly to start with, the question itself, about a configuration which would need an additional (SATA) drive has been followed by a comment that you have no need for an extra drive, and in any case the answer was given in an early post in the topic, as has been mentioned.

Further to that, my own quite seriously put question hasn't been answered by yourself anyway.

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finaly someone doesnt sound stupid trying to be a smart*** and doing a s**** job at it.

It could be claimed that there has only really been one person doing that in the discussion.

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Re: ide 1, 2 SATA 1, 2

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Jul 9th, 2005

Crazy-M

Don't understand why no-one read your question, it was pretty straight forward and specific.

In answer, you can add a SATA drive when you have both your IDE cables in use, providing
1. Your motherboard allows it, this will be confirmed in the manual. I have a Asus P4P800S and this says in the manual that you can add a SATA drive when all IDE ports are full.
2. The manual also specifies that it will only work if you are using Win2K or Win XP providing the XP has at least SP1 installed.

Hope this answers the question.

Cheers