Mixing Sata and Pata drives

I am mixing SATA and PATA on the same system. I plan to run the SATA as the primary dirve with OS (Windows 7) and use the PATA for data back up.

My question is this: How do I configure the PATA drive, as Master, as it is the master on the IDE bus, or as Slave, as it is the slave in the overall system???

Does anyone have experience such as this?

Steve, (shanemcgee's lesser half)

 

Set the PATA 'IDE' drive as master with the jumper on the drive and just plug the SATA drive in,in bios set the SATA drive as the first boot device or if your motherboard has a boot menu select the SATA drive as the first boot device there,the master slave configuration doesn't effect SATA drives at all.

That's all you need to do

 

Thanks so much, Ricky. You definitely answered my answer. And, I really know it is the 'right answer' because it agrees with my decision.

Thanks for your time and quick response.

Steve (husband of Shane)