On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:39:10 GMT, "Rich Barry"
<rbarrynot@socal.rr.com> wrote:

> Gareth, according to this Spec, yes you can do that.
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>On-Board IDE
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>. An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with
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> Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
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>Serial ATA Interface
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> - RAID O or 1 are supported
> - RAID function works w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
>. Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device
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>"Gareth J M Saunders" <garethsaunders@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:Vqpof.62401$Ms6.24783@fe1.news.blueyonder.co .uk...
>> Hi folks,
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>> I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
>> has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
>> 120
>> GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW
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>> It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2. "Both connectors are
>> fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
>> connector can connect to 1 hard disk device."
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>> My question: Am I right in thinking then that could connect a further 2
>> hard
>> drives (SATA) to this setup, giving me 4 x hard drives in all?
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Gareth J M Saunders
>> Edinburgh UK
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Refrain from posting binaries to a text newsgroup. I didn't want your
crappy pictures on my hard drive.