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Using RAID connection as regular IDE connection on A8V
Is it possible to use the RAID connection as a regular IDE connection?
I've got 4 IDE drives (1-200GB & 3-250GB), plus DVD and CD devices. I want to use each of these devices as separate drives (no RAID 0 or RAID 1). Richard Higgins |
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"Deanna Higgins" wrote in message news:PnQfd.89895$tU4.73107@okepread06... Is it possible to use the RAID connection as a regular IDE connection? I've got 4 IDE drives (1-200GB & 3-250GB), plus DVD and CD devices. I want to use each of these devices as separate drives (no RAID 0 or RAID 1). Richard Higgins I have in the past, set up a RAID array with one drive, on another board to give this effect. You still need to use the RAID drivers. DVD, and CD devices, require support for them from the controller. Whether the A8V supports these on the RAID controller, I don't know. Best Wishes |
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:53:12 -0600, "Deanna Higgins"
wrote: Is it possible to use the RAID connection as a regular IDE connection? I've got 4 IDE drives (1-200GB & 3-250GB), plus DVD and CD devices. I want to use each of these devices as separate drives (no RAID 0 or RAID 1). I've used the RAID connectors , on 2 different MOBOs, setup as regular IDE (no RAID 0 or 1). Don't ask me how I did it as it was some time ago and have forgotten the details; I gave up using this option as "Spinrite", a hard drive diagnostic application, will not see RAID drives. As far as I can remember you can't use CD or DVD drives on a RAID controller. BP. |
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In article PnQfd.89895$tU4.73107@okepread06, "Deanna Higgins"
wrote: Is it possible to use the RAID connection as a regular IDE connection? I've got 4 IDE drives (1-200GB & 3-250GB), plus DVD and CD devices. I want to use each of these devices as separate drives (no RAID 0 or RAID 1). Richard Higgins The Promise 20378 doesn't support ATAPI devices (so no CD/DVD on there). As for putting a hard drive on there, you can do it, but I would back up the data while the drive is on an ordinary IDE interface first, then restore the data once the drive has been prepped on the Promise interface. I say this, because I moved a drive with data on it, to a 20378, and did some work with Partition Magic, and when I moved the drive to another computer, the first partition was screwed up. I cannot say exactly what happened, or what I did wrong, but at least consider the possibility that moving from ordinary IDE to the Promise IDE, is not quite as transparent as you are hoping for. (What should be transparent, is in the future, if you have a problem, a Promise prepped drive can be moved to any other Promise controller. My suspicion is, a reserved sector is being used on the 20378, even when using the "ATA" driver, as I was. But don't take that theory as gospel. I don't know of an easy way to prove or disprove that.) HTH, Paul |
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"Deanna Higgins" wrote:
Is it possible to use the RAID connection as a regular IDE connection? I've got 4 IDE drives (1-200GB & 3-250GB), plus DVD and CD devices. I want to use each of these devices as separate drives (no RAID 0 or RAID 1). I've got an Asus A7V333 with RAID and I use 6 IDE devices: three hard disks, one DVD writer, one CD writer and one CD reader... ....but I've a modified BIOS on my mobo. Ciao |
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