Running a RAID controller card and a K7S5A?

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If you are successfully, or have attempted, to use a RAID controller card and the ECS K7S5A. Could you please tell me which RAID card you have, and if you had any difficulties with the motherboard and/or card?

Thank you very much.
 

FatBurger

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I would assume you're having trouble with yours?

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Don't step in the sarcasm!
 
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Yep. I posted earlier in the week but nobody had any suggestions for a RAID card, only an ATA controller card. So now I'm trying to see which cards ppl have gotten to work and see if there were any tricks that I can use or so I can go and buy the RAID card that they have.
 

pat

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Have you thought about selling your current mobo and buy another one with RAID included onboard. that may saves you a lot of time.

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!
 
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I am running:
ECS K7S5A, AMD XP 1500+
(1) 256 stick of generic DDR2100
Hercules GeForce II MX
On board Sound and LAN
Seagate 20gig as Primary Master
48x CD as Seccondary Master
I loaded Windows XP Home Edition from scratch
( Home Edition was a prize in a raffle, if I bought,
I would have gone for XP Pro )
Then,I loaded an older IWILL SIDE-RAID66 card in a PCI slot,
connected two 15gig Fujitsu drives, booted up, configured and formatted.

This box has been up for three months. I shut it down at night.

About once a week, for the last three weeks it goes thru the Scan Disk exercise at bootup, complaining about data corruption. Two minutes later it is up again. I have not checked into what the problem is, it is a secondary machine, an I haven't found the free time to look at it yet. Besides, I really want to go back to Windows 2000 Pro.

Sorry for the long story.... Hope it helps..
 

mbetea

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when i did have the k7s5a i was using my fasttrakTX2 100 with no problems.

I run duals because i multitask between notepad, outlook express and winamp :lol: