Hard Drives -ATA and SATA

posted by loucol1788 on May 17, 2008

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Can an SATA and Ultra ATA hard drive co-exist on the same mother board and both work properly.
I am running a 160gb Ultra ATA drive and would like too add an 250GB SATA drive. My mother board has 2, 1.5 SATA connecters, The ATA will be used as a back up after installation of the SATA

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Lou

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posted on May 18, 2008

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Yes, they can coexist.

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