A mix (or a mess) of a SATA and a PATA

Hi Paul,
thanks for the information!

I too disconnected the PATA while installing XP but I didn´t do it from wisdom, rather the opposite.
I couldn´t tell the drives apart during the first attempt to install XP since both drives are identical in size.

I would have gambled that the drive listed at the top is the SATA but now I know (?) that would have been wrong.

The simple solution was to disconnect the PATA until finished to be certain that the OS ended up where it should.

I had the SATA on SATA1, the PATA on IDE1 as Slave and two opticals on IDE2.
In Disk Manager, the PATA was Disk0 and the SATA was Disk1.

After rearranging the drives to SATA on SATA1, the two opticals on IDE1 and the PATA on IDE2 as Slave, in Disk Manager, the SATA is now Disk0 and the PATA is Disk1.

No other changes, though. When the PATA has been removed and put back, I have to go into BIOS and change the boot order to get the computer to boot from the SATA.

There must be something that I´m not aware of ...... ...... !

Christer

Edited:

If I had the information that benchmarking the two drives provided, when I helped my friend choose the components, then I would definitely advise him to buy two PATAs.
At this stage in development there is no noticeable advantage but a lot of trouble.