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RAID controller on MB also support non-RAID ??



 
 
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Old July 19th 05, 09:40 PM
Al Franz
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Default RAID controller on MB also support non-RAID ??

See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is it
common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA drives?


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Old July 19th 05, 10:00 PM
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"Al Franz" wrote in message
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See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is
it common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA
drives?


Yes. The only thing those controllers do to support RAID is see 2 drives as
one or write simultaneously (almost) to both drives, mirroring one or the
other. Other than that, they're simply SATA controllers. They differ quite a
bit to add-in RAID controllers that do RAID 5 and have their own processor
onboard to take care of the overhead.


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Old July 19th 05, 10:42 PM
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Yes.

"Al Franz" wrote in message
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See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is
it common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA
drives?



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Old July 20th 05, 12:16 AM
John Weiss
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"Al Franz" wrote...
See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is it
common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA drives?


Yes.

However, you may still need to install the RAID controller drivers and configure
the RAID BIOS for single-drive use.


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Old July 20th 05, 12:52 AM
BruceM
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Yes......... single drive use......... or two drives as singles.
Also called JBOD.
So basically on most you must pretend you're setting up a raid & then set
the type as JBOD. (Just Bunch Ordinary Disks) (if you don't believe me then
use Google for JBOD)




"John Weiss" wrote in message
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"Al Franz" wrote...
See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers. Is
it common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA
drives?


Yes.

However, you may still need to install the RAID controller drivers and
configure the RAID BIOS for single-drive use.




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Old July 20th 05, 03:03 AM
fj
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"BruceM" wrote in message
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Yes......... single drive use......... or two drives as singles.
Also called JBOD.
So basically on most you must pretend you're setting up a raid & then set
the type as JBOD. (Just Bunch Ordinary Disks) (if you don't believe me
then use Google for JBOD)

FWIW, the Gigabyte K8NSC-939 enables simple IDE operation for each drive.
It allows you to choose with the drive is available for use in a RAID array
or it is available only as an IDE device. If a drive is set up as non RAID,
there is no further setup.




"John Weiss" wrote in message
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"Al Franz" wrote...
See many of the mother boards support RAID on their SATA controllers.
Is it common for all these types of ports to also support non-RAID SATA
drives?


Yes.

However, you may still need to install the RAID controller drivers and
configure the RAID BIOS for single-drive use.






 




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