Rightio! RAID - I need an help on certain setup!

Hi all,

I have the Gigabyte GA-8INXP (Intel E7205) MB,
Now . . . Currently I have the following setup - 2 x 60GB Hard Drives and 2 x CD Drives (DVD and CD-R)

My question(s) is, if I buy two SATA 80GB Hard Drives, can I set up RAID using the SATA and standard ATA IDE drives at the same time so that all up, I have can have the following:

2 x 60GB IDE standard ATA drive in 'RAID 0' therefore effectively having one fast 120GB hard drive. (These would be connected to the Motherboards IDE 1 and IDE 2 connectors)

2 x 80GB SATA drives running in 'RAID 1' therefore effectively having one 80GB hard drive (these would be connected to the Motherboards two Serial ATA connectors)

And then having my two CDROMS as well (these would be connected to the Motherboards IDE 3 and IDE 4 connectors or just IDE 3 if it’s possible)



Altogether my OS should theoretically only see two hard drives (one 80GB one and one 120GB one) along with two CD drives. Yet inside my physical PC I will have 4 hard drives and 2 CD drives (6 drives altogether)
Is this setup at all possible on the motherboard?



A few other questions that you may answer already while reading the above, but . . .

Can the motherboard run both SATA and normal ATA drives at the same time, if so; can they also be used at the same time using RAID?

If using a RAID setup, I have to have “ONE” IDE connector on the motherboard Per Hard drive, I can’t do what I have now with two hard drives on one cable in one connector?
But does that mean then, that if I have RAID running on connectors IDE 1 and IDE 2 OR IDE 3 and IDE 4 for the hard drives, do the CD drives also then have to have one drive per IDE connection (or one drive per cable), or can I leave them on the way they are, the two drives on one cable?

Thanks for any light you could shed on this for me, I don’t know if I Fully understand the workings of RAID but from what I do get, what I want is possible but will my motherboard handle it. (which it should I think, as it supports all those things)

cheers


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