I wonder why the controller does not have room for additional drives? Even
though you can connect up to 12 drives on this board? ...it seems that you
are limited on the most powerful controllers (SATA) to only 2 drives per.

"Kilgore Trout Jr" wrote in message
ink.net...
You got it. You will need to enable the H/W SATA Controller (i.e. Silicon
Image) in the BIOS. If you're just adding one more drive or you want to be
able to access two more independent drives, set it up as Base. Windows
will
find new hardware and you'll have to load the driver from the Gigabyte
utility disk or download the newest drivers from the SI website.

http://12.24.47.40/display/2/index.a...=2&r=0.7280084




"colt45" wrote in message ...
That is the kind of info I was looking for.
So, in order to RAID additional SATA drives, I have to now use the SIL
controller since I have my original INTEL SATA already committed with 2
WD
drives...? I think that is what my conclusion should be.
thanks,


"Kilgore Trout Jr" wrote in message
ink.net...
I am not an expert but I believe the following to be true:
Each SATA drive needs its' own cable to the motherboard. The GA-8KNXP
supports up to four SATA drives using the two built-in SATA
controllers.
You
can set them up as four independent drives or use pairs of drives in
RAID
0
or RAID 1 configurations. Neither of the controllers support RAID sets
with
more than two drives. This board will also support up to eight PATA
drives
with the built-in IDE controllers. PATA drives on the ITE "GigaRaid"
controller can also be set up as independent drives or as RAID sets.
It
is
theoretically possible to run 12 hard drives off this MB!

"colt45" wrote in message
...
OK, I probably could look for another couple of hours for the right
link
to
the instructions.... But I thought that I could get some simple
directions
from you experts.

I have raid0 with 2 drives set up. However, I was curious about
additional
drives. On my 8KNXP I have the INTEL sata and the SIL sata. Is
there
a
SATA
cable that has two locations like the older IDE drive cables?


"mark7dc" wrote in message
news:UVWqb.12763$mb5.7761@fed1read02...
I suggest you download the instructions from Intel:

http://www.intel.com/support/

"colt45" wrote in message
...
how exactly do you set up a raid0 for 3 or more drives on the
intel
sata
controller?