Does a SATA drive need to be added in pairs? I have an abit av8 motherboard and it isn't detecting the single SATA drive I added, and I tried setting it to 1.5 Gb/s.
I am just a bit confused. I have two IDE hard drives and I am wondering if they will work with SATA cables since some people are telling me they are backwards compatible. Is this true?
I am trying to hook up all of my Hard Drives that we have lying around externally via USB. This way I can extract or add data them them at will. Just like an external HDD with an enclosure. I'm thinki