More than 4 IDE Drives

[bbrener]

I have seen much information on RAID motherboards, but not to answer the question I have. I do not wish to use RAID. However, I need 5 IDE drives (3 HD and CDR and CDRW).
Does a raid motherboard allow the connection of 5 IDE drives in a non raid configuration? I currently use a promise add in card to achieve this, but it has drawbacks with Drive Image and Partition Magic.

Brian

 

[camieabz]

You should have no problem with this. Assuming it's an HPT37x controller, you will have to set up the drives in the menu, but not create a RAID array.

Once you have Windows installed, install the HPT370 drivers for your ATA100 support.

Use the standard IDE 1 and 2 for the CD drives and put them both on master. Put two of your three drives on to the IDEs 3 & 4 as master. Then it's up to you to decide where to put the 3rd HDD. If I suggest you make sure your OS goes on the drive on master IDE 3, and the 3rd drive is slaved to IDE 4.

<b><font color=blue>~ <A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/phpBB/index.php" target="_new">Anyone looked in here yet?</A> ~<font color=blue></b>

 

[AndrewT]

my other board had a jumper to use the raid or use it as ata100, also bios had a choice for the same thing. You can read most if not all motherboard manuals on-line so start reading before buying.

<font color=red>Got a silent setup, now I can hear myself thinking.... great silence</font color=red>