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Running PATA / SATA together in a P
Name: Liquid Fusion Date: January 31, 2008 at 01:53:30 Pacific OS: XP / SP2 CPU/Ram: PIII 1gHz / 512 rambus ra Product: Dell XPS B1000r
Comment:
Can I run an ATA PCI 133 EIDE controller card and a SATA controller card at the same time?
Name: cuddlez Date: January 31, 2008 at 02:13:24 Pacific
Reply:
yes you can
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: January 31, 2008 at 05:37:17 Pacific
Reply:
If you haven't purchased both the cards yet you may find it easier to buy a single card that has ports for both. How many of each type of drive do you have. On another note you need to verify any card you get can properly configure optical drives, if you need that option. Not all controller cards are capable of that.
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Response Number 3
Name: Liquid Fusion Date: February 1, 2008 at 23:12:00 Pacific
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Hi. I already have a Maxtor(Promise) ATA 133 PCI card that runs 4 HDDS at UDMA6 on the 133 MHz bus.
When I read about a SATA/PCI card, I see 66MHz for the bus. Doesn't this slow the speed?
Why SATA? I'd like to have a 10K rpm HDD for the OS - XP/SP2 (audio/ video pdtn).
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