mixing IDE and serial ATA

[Dan Lund]

If that happens, you can get a daughterboard with SATA capabilities.
The ones I've seen will just use PCI cascading irqs.

--Dan

On 4/2/07, jason at spatafore.net <jason at spatafore.net> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> You may find a few differences if using SATA and IDE drives together. For
> example:
>
> /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc... will most-likely be your SATA drives.
> /dev/hdx will most-likely be your IDE drives.
>
> Also note that some motherboards do not permit both SATA and IDE to be
> utilized for hard drives. (Some boards disable primary IDE channel when
> SATA is enabled. You may need a BIOS update to make it work correctly.) I
> have experienced this in the field at the beginnings of SATA. (Not sure if
> it's an issue now.)
>
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