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Admiral_Ant

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8 Jun 2003, 4:35pm

last question before I build my new pc

okay guys, some of you may rember me asking for your help with building my new pc about 3 weeks ago on icrontic. Well, I was about to order it all today but I wanted to check one thing. I've got 2 westerndigital special edition drives that I want to use in addition to a cd burner and a dvd drive. Would you reccomend I get 2 SATA-to-Ide converters and use the serial controller on my a7n8x delux?

I just figured I would be better for the drives to each have their own channel, espesially when doing a cd copy or writing from one drive to another. Will this work out okay?
Sounds like is should to me...but you're the people I trust, any thoughts?

btw, thanks to all the help you guys gave in the last thread! Almost ready to buy this thing

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Cyclonite

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8 Jun 2003, 4:59pm

You don't need to use the SATA at all if you don't want to. You can put both hard drives on a single IDE channel. They'll be fine. Keep your CD drives on a single channel together as well. I currently have 3 hard drives (2 on IDE, 1 on SATA) and 2 CD drives (Both on the same channel). It works just fine.

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Admiral_Ant

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8 Jun 2003, 5:03pm

I know they'd work as you said Trekky...but I always heard it was better to keep 'em seperate. Like I know that when I had my 2 hdds on this pc on the same channel, they copied to eachother horriblly slow, but that was fixed when I gave em their own channel, same goes for copying a cd from my dvd drive to my burner when their on the same channel.
The big thing here is will I encounter many problems and such by using the Sata controllers? I tend to be parinoid with really new technology

Thanks again

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Admiral_Ant

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8 Jun 2003, 9:18pm

hmm, okay. But let's just say I was being dumb

.... and wanted to use the adapters, does anyone forsee any problems?

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Cyclonite

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8 Jun 2003, 9:29pm

I foresee no problems. Make sure your HDD jumpers are set to master, though. It took me forever to figure that one out...

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Admiral_Ant

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8 Jun 2003, 9:31pm

lol, gotcha....O man I can't wiat
moving from ym curretn 800mhz p3, gf2gts, 768sdram and a 100gb WD special ed to
xp3000+, 1gb of ddr333, an AiW radeon9700, a 120gb and the older 100gb special ed. wedsterndigitals. Along with some other good stuff. Can't wait.
Doing 3d modeling and rendering on a 800mhz machine is pure torture!

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Clutch

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8 Jun 2003, 9:34pm

I wish you the best of luck with your new system Admiral. Looks like you're going to be running one sweet system when it's all said and done. Any unused cpu cycles are going to be folding right? hehe

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Cyclonite

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8 Jun 2003, 9:57pm

Good pointing that one out, Clutch... We wouldn't want that beautiful machine going to waste.

//Edit: Misspelled "that." Don't ask...

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Cyclonite edited : 9 Jun 2003 at 12:29am .

jono

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8 Jun 2003, 10:29pm

Make sure you use the latest drivers and bios updates if you go for serial ata.

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Admiral_Ant

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9 Jun 2003, 1:56am

cool, thanks guys!
and yes, folding may be part of it's future

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