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kramzurc   10-27-2009 at 04:46:59 AM

Hello,

I just finished building a computer. I had set up my boot drive (2x250GB SATA II 7200rpm) on a RAID 0 configuration and i am planning to add another drive (a non-RAID drive just for data storage) soon.

The motherboard manual says "Due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together."

My question is, is there a workaround on this so i can add another internal drive (non-RAID) to my system?

Thank you

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Motherboard: Asus P7P55D PRO
Processor: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.66Ghz
Memory: 8Gb (4x2Gb) Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

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I have this same MB that I am building right now.

If memory serves, there is a single sata port that is on the Jmicron SATA/PATA controller (not part of the raid ports) that should be usable for your storage drive. I think its the black one.

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borged   10-27-2009 at 03:01:18 PM
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I have this same MB that I am building right now.

If memory serves, there is a single sata port that is on the Jmicron SATA/PATA controller (not part of the raid ports) that should be usable for your storage drive. I think its the black one.

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kramzurc   11-03-2009 at 04:02:39 AM

borged wrote :

I have this same MB that I am building right now.

If memory serves, there is a single sata port that is on the Jmicron SATA/PATA controller (not part of the raid ports) that should be usable for your storage drive. I think its the black one.




it worked! thank you!

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diablotim   11-08-2009 at 02:51:08 AM

borged wrote :

I have this same MB that I am building right now.

If memory serves, there is a single sata port that is on the Jmicron SATA/PATA controller (not part of the raid ports) that should be usable for your storage drive. I think its the black one.


But the Jmicron port is supposed to be the e-sata port. So if you want to keep that one free for front pannel plugin for instance, is there any way to still build a configuration with say:
- 1xHD as system drive, bootable, non-RAID
- 2xHD storage, in RAID1 for inst

Can it not simply work like that? even if you don't configure the sole system drive in a RAID? The RAID controller should be able to handle single drives no?
When I tried (configured my disks in RAID after having installed winxp 32) POST told me that a bootable drive could not be found (even after checking the boot sequence in the BIOS).

Or, if mandatory, is it not possible to build a "RAID array" with only 1 drive for the system drive?


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