Quick question

MadMan-JaMeS · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:28

i just brought this board

Link

and i've got an IDE HDD in my old system full of music i want to use on it

now am i right in thinking this mobo dnt support IDE in which case i'll have to buy a SATA HDD and transfer it over ?

Thanks

icey_haj · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:30

It does support IDE. It's the blue socket towards the bottom left.

Delvis · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:34

As above, it does indeed have an IDE port

In the description: Storage: 1x UltraDMA.

Is this going to be a new install as well? As I presume you have brought a new hard drive for that?

Venares · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:35

Blue Socket as icey says, they just killed the floppy connector.
Bout time if you ask me

Ghost-Reaper · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:36

Venares said:
Blue Socket as icey says, they just killed the floppy connector.
Bout time if you ask me

just need to get rid of ide now

SKaRT · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:40

Ghost-Reaper said:
just need to get rid of ide now

Can't imagine it'll be long before IDE is gone as well.

icey_haj · 22 Jun 2009 at 19:41

SKaRT said:
Can't imagine it'll be long before IDE is gone as well.

Hopefully. Then we can get rid of regular hard drives and move on to SSD.

MadMan-JaMeS · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:28

Ahh i see.

Well that has 2 CD-Drives plugged into it.

Could i just unplugg on CD drive and have a HDD Aswell ?

gonna get a 500GB sata soon but for now the IDE is full of my music that i want lol

DavyBoy · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:33

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Ahh i see.

Well that has 2 CD-Drives plugged into it.

Could i just unplugg on CD drive and have a HDD Aswell ?

gonna get a 500GB sata soon but for now the IDE is full of my music that i want lol

It should be OK having a HDD and ODD connected to the same IDE channel, just be sure that the HDD is set to master and ODD to slave...

Or at least this is how I used to do it... I personally hate IDE devices, it is those big ugly ribbon cables that annoy me...

SATA cables are so much tidier IMO... I agree that it wont be to long before IDE dissapears... the sooner the better!!!

MadMan-JaMeS · 23 Jun 2009 at 01:11

another thing

i got a hoop kinda thing and in the manual it says stops interference ?

what should go through it and what interference does it stop ?