Aegis Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 (edited) Is there ever a case where a hard drive doesn't need an IDE channel? Only thing that comes to my mind is a USB hard drive, and I'm not too sure about that one. Edited August 9, 2006 by Aegis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 SATAUSBFirewire 400Firewire 800Wireless networkWired Network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 well me and aegis were talking about this. how come for sata, if you into the device manager and check ur sata hdds HWID, it says ide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 The hard drive controller (the green board on the drive) is SATA. The host adapter on the motherboard (not an actual controller) identifies it as IDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 But for external hard drives (USB/Firewire), doesn't it still connect to an IDE cable inside of the HD case, which is then converted to a USB/Firewire signal and transmitted to the computer?And regardless of what it actually is, I think the computer views the SATA controller as an IDE one, because if I try to remove the drivers for IDE, then my computer BSOD's with 0x7B (boot device error).I guess the question is, can you still boot from an external HD if you remove the IDE drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 USB, Firewire both use completely different interface and subsystem, although I know that many mobos can emulate a USB device as an IDE one and boot from a USB drive (not too sure about Firewire).well me and aegis were talking about this. how come for sata, if you into the device manager and check ur sata hdds HWID, it says ide?SATA and IDE both use the same software interface, only the hardware is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
03GrandAmGT Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 If I remember correctly, the IDE, Sata Raid tie into the south bridge chip directly. The USB ties into the southbridge using another chip called "Connectivity" which also handles the pci, keyboard/mouse and all other periphials. This chip also resides on the southbridge. I might be wrong it's been a few years since I studied this and MUCH water has passed beneath the bridge.jd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 so technically no matter what interface we use, its all really ide? b/c the problem aegis is having can get pretty annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 so technically no matter what interface we use, its all really ide? b/c the problem aegis is having can get pretty annoying.No, only SATA/PATA are both the same at the software level.USB, Firewire, etc. use a different interface, both in terms of software and hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Thanks everyone. Got the information I needed . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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