raid question... :)

[soki]

Hi people I want to ask a question about the raid controller that
included in the motherboards nowdays. Can I use it like the normal ide
channels? I mean can I put a dvdrom or a cd/rw or a hard disk on it,
like I do in the normal ide channels? Because I want to use it only for
adding more devices on it like dvdroms and hard disks and I dont care about
the raid 0,1,1+0 properties...
Thanx in advance

 

[Boonesmi]

yeah... you can either use it as a raid controller, or as an extra regular ide controller

although its not recomended for optical drives (ie. cdrom/dvd/burner/etc)
but i know many people who use their raid controller just to add extra harddrives (not in raid format)

 

[LOAF]

The Promise chip on the ASUS A7V333 motherboard will only work with hard drives. I tried to plug in
CD/DVD/CD-RW drives when I was putting my computer together and nothing was detected.

You can, however, use it to either control a RAID array or to control individual hard disks.

 

[Mikki]

I know the P4B533-E has raid bios updates that let it use optical drives, I don't know how they work though. HTH

 

[nemo160]

the highpoint raid on the epox 8k7a+ and 8k3a+ works fine for optical drives in my experience

 

[soki]

thanx people

 

[AndrewPaulNet]

I've been asking that question myself...and noone ever posts.

Except I'm talking about the MSI KT3 Ultra ARU.

Can the raid ide be used for hard drives not in a raid array?

Get back...please.

 

[Boonesmi]

yup they work fine for harddrives in a non raid format

all of the common onboard raid controllers can be used as either raid, or regular ata (including promise, highpoint, AMI)

some will work ok with optical drives (ie cdrom/dvd/etc) and some wont

 

[AndrewPaulNet]

Thank You.

Damn MSI Tech people man. He specifically told me it couldn't. I hope their Bios Update doesn't disable the feature.

Well, time to send my Ultra back and get an Ultra2 R.

L8rz.