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Hello,
I've a computer with 4 year old motherboard (MSI 694D Pro).
This motherboard contain 2 standard Ultra DMA100 port and a Promise Fastrack
100 controller.
Here is the list of the drive on the motherboard:
- connected on the promise Fastrack 100 : two hard disk (60 GB each) in Raid
mirroring
- connected on the 2 standard Ultra DMA100 : a DVD reader, a DVD writer, a
200 GB disk (ultra dma 100) and a 120 GB Disk (ultra dma 100) .
This computer is to be user under Windows XP (and future version of Windows)
Can I buy an GA-8GPNXP Duo and :
- connect the DVD reader and the burner on the intel IDE port
- connect all hard disk to the IT8212.
(as I understand, the IT8212 is only for hard disk)
I want continue to have the two 60 GB disk mirrored, and the 200 and 120 GB
disk
as independant disk.
Is it possible ? And is it possible without reformat the disk ?
(I just want save data on disk, I known I can have to reinstall Windows
itself)
This mean :
- can I mix two independant disk, bootable, on the IT8212 and two mirrored
disk
- can I migrate mirror of two disk from Promise Fasttrack100 to IT8212
And can I boot on the 200 or 120 GB disk connected on the IT8212 ?
Of course, Sata is nice for future, but I don't want buy new disk at this
time for this computer.
Hello,
I've a computer with 4 year old motherboard (MSI 694D Pro).
This motherboard contain 2 standard Ultra DMA100 port and a Promise Fastrack
100 controller.
Here is the list of the drive on the motherboard:
- connected on the promise Fastrack 100 : two hard disk (60 GB each) in Raid
mirroring
- connected on the 2 standard Ultra DMA100 : a DVD reader, a DVD writer, a
200 GB disk (ultra dma 100) and a 120 GB Disk (ultra dma 100) .
This computer is to be user under Windows XP (and future version of Windows)
Can I buy an GA-8GPNXP Duo and :
- connect the DVD reader and the burner on the intel IDE port
- connect all hard disk to the IT8212.
(as I understand, the IT8212 is only for hard disk)
I want continue to have the two 60 GB disk mirrored, and the 200 and 120 GB
disk
as independant disk.
Is it possible ? And is it possible without reformat the disk ?
(I just want save data on disk, I known I can have to reinstall Windows
itself)
This mean :
- can I mix two independant disk, bootable, on the IT8212 and two mirrored
disk
- can I migrate mirror of two disk from Promise Fasttrack100 to IT8212
And can I boot on the 200 or 120 GB disk connected on the IT8212 ?
Of course, Sata is nice for future, but I don't want buy new disk at this
time for this computer.