IDE to SATA converters

Ed-ChigliakEd-Chigliak West Yorks (UK)
edited July 2003 in Hardware
What's the best way of connecting up my two WD120 SE IDE drives on the Abit NF7-S motherboard.

NF7-S SATA raid so I guess I need some IDE to SATA convertors in the back of those drives.

Also I was thinking of dual booting XP / 98SE because some of my older games don't run under XP.

If you have an opinion on the subject please post and in the meantime I will try find some guide on google.

Thanks Ed^

Comments

  • Ed-ChigliakEd-Chigliak West Yorks (UK)
    edited July 2003
    The last included accessory is a SATA-to-IDE converter. It has been shown to drop CPU usage by approximately 3%. ABIT was the first to offer this adaptor bundled with a motherboard. Although the performance gain is minimal, it frees up another IDE channel if necessary.

    OK so I probably got one already and I need to buy another one.

    I've got a week before the case arrives so plenty of time to find information on the raid, drive partitioning and dual boot options.

    Ed^
  • Ed-ChigliakEd-Chigliak West Yorks (UK)
    edited July 2003
    Planning to go SATA raid 0 config with IDE to SATE converters on each drive. CDRW and DVD as masters on IDE1 and IDE2

    98se will be clean install and 2 or 3 games at most with no apps so I figure all on 20gb drive C FAT32 will be enough.

    The rest of my sytem will be NTFS with xp pro, utils & apps on 20gb drive D.

    The remaining 200gb will be split 50/50 also NTFS

    Partition 1 - Drive C 20gb 98se FAT32
    Partition 2 - Drive D 20gb xp NTFS

    Install 98se fisrst on C then xp on D

    Partition 3 - Drive E 100gb NTFS
    Games files
    Install files
    Documnets
    Music
    Photos

    Partition 4 = 100gb NTFS
    Vob files
    Avi files

    Sound OK to you?
  • SwordsmanSwordsman
    edited July 2003
    Since all 3 previous posts were yours, ED, I assume you have no problem with any of it or you would have objected to yourself, right?

    Seriously, though, why 98? I have 3 friends that have basically done the same thing you've laid out here and when it was all said and done, they reformatted and started the whole thing over with only XP and all of it in NTFS. I assume you've got reasons so I won't harp on it, but I just wanted to throw in my experience, for what it's worth.

    Good Luck,
    S!
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