Does RAID 1 allow any more HDDs connected to internal SATA ports

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I am running a RAID 1 array (Intel motherboard controller) on my desktop and I only have those 2 HDDs connected because, whenever I try to connect a 3rd non RAID HDD to use as slave, the system can't find the boot drive (the RAID 1 array). Does using a RAID 1 array exclude the possibility of having any other HDD connected to internal SATA ports? Oh, and both RAID array HDDs are connected to the same SATA port. Whenever I try to connect this 3rd drive, I always try to use the other SATA port bellow.

specs:

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)

Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)


Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X48-DQ6
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F6 02/29/2008


RAM: 8192 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Processor: 2,50 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
3072 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded


Drives:

7501,21 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
2541,51 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ASUS DRW-2014L1T [Optical drive]
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]

raid1 [Hard drive] -- drive 0, encrypted with TrueCrypt, Not SMART
Toshiba External USB 3.0 USB Device [Hard drive] (3000,59 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 80B63535, SMART Status: Healthy
USB DISK 2.0 USB Device (61,84 GB) -- drive 3, s/n 0E7009163090
WD My Book 1230 USB Device [Hard drive] (3000,52 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WCC4N0192072
WD My Book USB Device [Hard drive] (1000,20 GB) -- drive 4

Bus Adapters:

Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller
Virtual CloneDrive
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2934
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2935
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2936
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2937
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2938
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2939
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 293A
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 293C
NEC Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller
NEC Electronics USB 3.0 Root Hub


Display: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 [Display adapter] (2x)

By the way, the BIOS is in RAID mode (but you this information is probably obvious to you lol)

Any other specification you need to know just ask!

I updated the heck out of this answer. I hope you don't get a notification for each update. If you do, I'm terribly sorry for that!
Thanks in advance! :)
 
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I'm sorry JobCreator, but I didn't express my problem correctly. When I connect the 3rd HDD, Windows (in the RAID HDDs) simply doesn't boot due to the mere presence of that 3rd disk. I don't even get to the desktop, let along to "My Computer".This happens with any 3rd HDD I try to connect and, if I try to connect them to an external USB adapter in the Windows environment, then they all work perfectly. Thanks anyway! :)
 
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Good one! I'll try that! :) Thanks!
 
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I haven't forgotten to try this but, I accidentally destroyed my graphics card while cleaning the clutter in the heatsink and fan. It was making too much noise and it's one of those models closed with a plastic encasing to I had to remove a ton of screws and separate several layers until I got to remove that casing. I cleaned it up and even applied thermal compound in the chips but when I assembled it again and connected my computer, I found out it hadn't survived the "procedure" lol... I'm now waiting for a replacement from Amazon, which may take like a week or so... This one was too old anyway.
 
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I still haven't tried your suggestion but it's likely it may work. :) If it doesn't work though, I think I'm just going to stop using RAID also because I've just learned that RAID wears down HDDs faster :p

Thank you very much! :)
 
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