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5) A note said that ATAPI optical master and ATA hard drive slave will not work. Does the reverse, typical, configuration work?

I have an ATAPI DVDRW and IDE HDD. I jumpered them Cable Select, put the optical at the end and the HDD in the middle.

Works fine.

Wow. That's some scary stuff there :D Glad it's working for you though. Intel's web site says that blah blah blah Microsoft says you shouldn't try to change the drive mode in BIOS blah blah blah. Actually I tried several times (just changing, changing and using Recovery Console, etc.) and it would j...

... Configure SATA as - IDE S.M.A.R.T. - enable ... I'm curious, why do you have the SATA drive running as IDE? This maxes the speed out at UDMA4 or UDMA5 and disables NCQ .... (according to the info provided in Intel Desktop Utilities) ACL Just noticed this reply and I am wondering what should the...

old stuff wrote:...
Configure SATA as - IDE
S.M.A.R.T. - enable

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I'm curious, why do you have the SATA drive running as IDE? This maxes the speed out at UDMA4 or UDMA5 and disables NCQ ....

(according to the info provided in Intel Desktop Utilities)

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