simple raid question

[SoundGarD]

I'm running an MSI 845D (UltraARU) with onboard promise raid. I'm running 4 drives on it (no raid) (leaving the onboard ide for my cdroms) and i want more -- but how? i was thinking about adding a couple 20-40gig drives as mirrored raid for my operating system, leaving the 4 current drives for storage. would it be possible to add a pci raid card and have a bootable mirror while leaving my onboard raid to stripe my others?

if that makes any sense ... thanks

 

[SoundGarD]

-- bump -- i'll only do this once, i promise

 

dont take my word for it, but you can just buy an pci card to add more ide ports, they can come real cheap, even with raid, so long as you dont want anything past raid-1 (mirrored)

 

[Insidious]

Some MoBo onboard Raid controllers don't operate properly when you add a PCI raid controller as well.

I know the Highpoint controller is like this.

I suggest disabling the on board raid controller and just use the PCI.

-Sid