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Pauly   04-01-2003 at 08:32:56 PM

Question, is this raid controller only for SATA drives?

Or should it also work with 2 ata/100/133 drives.

thx

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Civilized   04-01-2003 at 10:31:41 PM
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its only for sata drives....

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tomasb2   04-02-2003 at 04:39:14 AM
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Pauley, I just read the manual today & it stated that the raid is for one ATA133 (or below ) hard drive set as master. You can download the complete manual PDF file on ASUS website. The raid utility is on the CD. The other hard drives have to be connected to the the other ATA connectors. I just posted today because I need a copy of the CD! I bought an OEM board and no CD was included. No possibility that you could make me a copy? I could send a few $$'s for shipping. I contacted ASUS tech support a week ago & still no response!!! tomasb2@hotmail.com

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Harold   04-02-2003 at 05:09:29 AM
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>Question, is this raid controller only for SATA drives?

No, you may (or actually have to) run the ATA-disk as a raid disk. But you can only connect one (1) ATA-disk to the raid-interface. If you connect only one disk (no SATA devices) to the raid interface that disk will be treated as a single raid 0 device (that’s the same as a standard ATA disk :-) ...

>Or should it also work with 2 ata/100/133 drives.

No, you can’t connect 2 ata devices to the raid-interface. It only works with one ATA-disk, connected as a master.

So if you want to run a raid 0 system with 2 disks the options are:
1 ATA + 1 SATA
2 SATA

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Pauly   04-02-2003 at 11:34:28 PM
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thx allot for the confirmation.

Really hoped it would support ata raid in some way, thats why i bought the option in the first place.

I read the manual, but didn't want to believe it :D

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david__t   04-03-2003 at 03:58:27 PM
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I am currently looking to do the same thing on an A7V8X (same promise controller) and as far as I have been able to find out, you will be able to do what you want:

I think that you have to plug the first ATA drive in to the single RAID IDE port as mentioned above and then you will have to plug the other drive in to the SATA port - only it is PATA and not SATA so I see no reason why you couldn't use an adapter (PATA - SATA) on the back of the PATA drive. Adapter pic:http://www.mycom.se/produkter/435089/.

Anybody see why this won't work - please let me know!

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Pauly   04-03-2003 at 05:27:02 PM
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those adapters are quite expensive tbh.

around 30€

bit to much just for experimenting.

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