Can I mix drives? SATA and PATA?

I currently have 2 pata drives, can I add a sata ?

"peter" <peterk@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> Don't know....lack of information
> Do you have a mobo with SATA connectors???

Yes
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=1839474


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>> I currently have 2 pata drives, can I add a sata ?
>>

Don't know....lack of information
Do you have a mobo with SATA connectors???

peter

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"Lord Turkey Cough" <spamdump@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> I currently have 2 pata drives, can I add a sata ?
>

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:22:56 +0100, "Lord Turkey Cough"
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>I currently have 2 pata drives, can I add a sata ?
>

yes if you have sata port(s), mixing is not a problem. You
might then need to readjust the motherboard bios so the
intended drive is the one the system boots to.

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:33:31 +0200 (CEST), Rookie
<rookie@hates.spam> wrote:

>kony <spam@spam.com> wrote in news:sl35749g8as0ibhadh47te1ml0rep72ccm@
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>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:22:56 +0100, "Lord Turkey Cough"
>><spamdump@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I currently have 2 pata drives, can I add a sata ?
>>>
>>
>> yes if you have sata port(s), mixing is not a problem. You
>> might then need to readjust the motherboard bios so the
>> intended drive is the one the system boots to.
>>
>
>While this is certainly possible, in practice it can be a real PITA and
>require careful bios adjustments. Not that it won't work (because it will
>work eventually), but it can be a headache till it does.

This would seem to be a per-mainboard issue, lots of boards
are not hard to adjust to get the right drive to boot.
Sometimes they just don't describe the bios settings very
well and it takes a bit of fiddling and guessing what a
short few words description was meant to adjust.