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Xaphias   02-28-2004 at 07:11:10 AM

just a few questions, I'm new to RAID and SATA. can PATA drives be used on the SATA interface with some sort of PATA to SATA cable? and when creating a 2 disk RAID-0, does it have to one partition, or can u split it in more? eg. OS on 8GB and the rest as one partition?

thinking of bying a K8T800 motherboard, and it only has SATA in RAID, as far as I've seen, and I have a 80GB 7.200rpm PATA drive, thought I'd buy another one, and run that in raid on the SATA interface, if that's possible?

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HammerBot   02-28-2004 at 09:53:17 AM
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Yes, you can connect PATA drives to a SATA controller with an adaptor.
From the OS point of view, you RAID array is just one big drive. You can partition it etc., just as if it was a non-RAIDed drive.

Since you only have one drive, I recommend to forget about that one and buy two new SATA drives. That will save you the cost of the adaptors.

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Xaphias   02-28-2004 at 04:11:20 PM
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okay, thanx for the quick and complete answer :) ya never thought about the price on the PATA to SATA converter kits..damn those were expensive.

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