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Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 Motherboard Hard Drive Support Question
Their site says: "Dual EIDE ports support Ultra DMA 100MB/s of Burst data
transfer rate, supports UDMA Mode 5, PIO Mode 4 and ATA/100" See: http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Mo.../X5DAL-TG2.htm Does this mean two sets of master/slave or one? I'm thinking only one set of master/slave. It also says: "2 Silicon Image controllers support 4-port Serial ATA ( RAID 0, 1)". I don't know squat about SATA, but I'm guessing it's not backwards compatible with Ultra DMA 100 or Ultra DMA 133, no? I have four 120 GB hard drives, two 100s and two 133s. I do have a PCI RAID controller that I could use with them and it's supposed to be bootable, but ya never know until you try. Should I buy an SATA disk to install Win 2K Server onto and leave the UDMAs on the RAID controller? Will I need to buy another UDMA controller for my other EIDE devices? (CDRW, DVD +/-RW) I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks much, Dave |
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