Setting up single SATA drive on P4800-E Deluxe

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I have just purchased a WD 160 GB SATA drive and am trying to set it up.
Should I have the BIOS set to RAID or IDE? Second, which diver do I
install - Promise ATA, Promise RAID, or Via?

Thanks
Ron

 

[TK]

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Raid is for 2 drives if you only have one don't worry about it.
You can use the Intel Sata port or the Promise, I use the Promise
because it does UDMA 6. use the promise IDE (378 ATA) driver if not going
raid.

"no_one" <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I have just purchased a WD 160 GB SATA drive and am trying to set it up.
>Should I have the BIOS set to RAID or IDE? Second, which diver do I
>install - Promise ATA, Promise RAID, or Via?
>
>
> Thanks
> Ron
>

 

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Thanks for the reply; I decided to RTFM today and was suprised to see that
I had seperate Promise and Intel SATA connectors (hey it was dark and it was
late!). The references in the manual started to make sense and I started
the installation from scratch. I am running Drive Copy as we speak (on the
other machine of course) and hopefully we won't see this question from me
again!

Ron


"tk" <tokinkosh@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Raid is for 2 drives if you only have one don't worry about it.
> You can use the Intel Sata port or the Promise, I use the Promise
> because it does UDMA 6. use the promise IDE (378 ATA) driver if not going
> raid.
>
> "no_one" <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:1jNfd.3858$kM.3037@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>I have just purchased a WD 160 GB SATA drive and am trying to set it up.
>>Should I have the BIOS set to RAID or IDE? Second, which diver do I
>>install - Promise ATA, Promise RAID, or Via?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ron
>>
>
>