SATA cables

[Squidmaster]

I'm looking into a new hard drive, or perhaps two for a RAID 1 setup on a Chaintech VNF3-250 board and Antec P160 case. Do SATA drives come with the necessary cables? What about the mobo or case?

Also, in checking the Chaintech website, I found that the drivers are on a CD. Now, I'm a big ole novice when it comes to building from scratch, but I'm concerned after reading recent posts about needing a driver disk and hitting F6 to get things set up properly. Any advice?

Thanks as always.

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[Crashman]

Copy the driver files for the controller from CD to floppy. There might even be a floppy creator (aka, floppy disk image extractor) in the driver package if you're lucky.

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[Squidmaster]

Noted. I'll make sure to get a floppy drive then!

Any input about the cables themselves? Also, has anyone used serial drives in the P160 case? Do the cords fit ok?

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[Crashman]

I don't actually buy floppy drives, I pull them out of old systems.

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[Squidmaster]

Even better. I have one of those here. 4 years old or so.

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[Squidmaster]

After doing some more checking, it <i> appears </i> I'll need to buy cables to connect SATA drives. Am I right? If so, what should I buy, or should I bother in the first place? What about power? This whole SATA thing is quite new to me, but the Chaintech board seems to only support RAID with SATA drives.

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[rook]

If it's the <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=13-152-043-07.JPG/13-152-043-06.JPG/13-152-043-05.JPG/13-152-043-08.JPG" target="_new">same</A> board it looks like it comes with the cables and power adapters. Under the CDs are SATA cables and to the left of those is the adapters.

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[Squidmaster]

Ah. Great. I didn't recognize those.

If all goes well, I should have this thing up and running (on fire perhaps) at the end of next week! Hopefully <i> I </i> won't be running and on fire.

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