I just purchased two Seagate 250GB SATA drives. I plan to install one in each of two PCs here at home. Both Motherboards are SATA Ready (both have SATA plugs), so I just figured that after I plugged the drive cable in, I would see some indication that the system recognizes that drive as it does for the IDE HDD. Not so, as I've found out, even though I set the Phoenix-Award Bios (6.00PG) to enable SATA RAID support.
Can anyone tell me what else I need to do to get this puppy going? I guess IDE & SATA can be used together on the same PC? I have many years of experience building new systems, but have never ran into this before. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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I just purchased two Seagate 250GB SATA drives. I plan to install one in each of two PCs here at home. Both Motherboards are SATA Ready (both have SATA plugs), so I just figured that after I plugged the drive cable in, I would see some indication that the system recognizes that drive as it does for the IDE HDD. Not so, as I've found out, even though I set the Phoenix-Award Bios (6.00PG) to enable SATA RAID support.
Can anyone tell me what else I need to do to get this puppy going? I guess IDE & SATA can be used together on the same PC? I have many years of experience building new systems, but have never ran into this before. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
rdarnell