sata - eide conundrum?????????
 

I have an ide hd, and an ide and sata mobo. The main connection is ide with master and slave on ide. now i wanna add a third hd and wanted to go sata. i purchased the little adapter that goes on the back of the ide drive to change the connection to sata and hooked it up to my mobo but now i have two problems. 1. which power wire should i use, the floppys or the regular ide hd power cord and 2. do i have to do anything in the bios to get the sata connection to work on my asus p4p 800 se mobo??????? holla back

poor guy. I have a friend with an Asus A8V and he's been having so much touble with his mobo.

I chucked my old stuff and bought an ASUS P5B--all the way to SATA. Wish you the best, but my buddy is really suffering with dilemma after dilemma with his multi IDE/SATA mobo.