RAID with one drive

[johnoh]

I have an ecs k7vta3 mobo with promise fasttrak RAID, and only one drive. I would like to de-activate the raid controller since all it does is slow my boot up. Shrot of that, I would like at least to stop it from taking 20 seconds every boot up with its "scanning IDE drives ........................." message. Any ideas on how to do either? I see nothing in the doc or in the bios setup. Thanks

John A

 

[4Ryan6]

John, it appears from your M/Bs manual I downloaded and checked out from the ECS website, that you are the proud owner of a non-disabling RAID function M/B, by Jumper or CMOS setup. Unless I missed it there is no provision to disable it, so I would suggest since you're stuck with it you may consider using it. Thats the biggest negative I've seen so far against the ECS M/B. If you don't mind me asking why did you go with the RAID M/B in the first place if you weren't going to use it, it cost you more money? Ryan

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[johnoh]

I got the machine from micropro.com, a place I have bought several machines from with good luck. In this case their "standard" config for amd machines was the ecs k7vta3 raid mobo and so I figured why not since all other configs cost more. I can live with it I guess.


John A