One HD on Raid?

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I just bought a P4C800-E-D and I'm reading the manual. I understand the Raid
0 and 1 arrays, but I'm not doing that now. I will have one ATA HDD on this
system to start. The manual is unclear on my options for this drive. It
would be nice to leave all the ATAPI drives (3) on the primary and secondary
IDE channels and have the HDD on the Raid channel. Yes, this is what RAID is
for, but it seems from the manual that the drives have to be installed in
pairs.
Can you put one HDD on the PRI_RAID controller as the only HD drive on the
system?
 
I think yes. I got a single drive to show up on the ide raid port trying to
troubleshoot why my raid set from another board wouldn't.
 
: BP wrote:
: > Can you put one HDD on the PRI_RAID controller as the only HD drive on
the
: > system?
: >
:
: Yes.

Yes!
 
When you state: one ATA then you propably mean SATA HD ???

If not and you will use one PATA HD then the answer must be NO ... wright
???
 
: When you state: one ATA then you propably mean SATA HD ???
:
: If not and you will use one PATA HD then the answer must be NO ... wright
: ???
:
I have one Western Digital 120GB IDE ATA100 drive that I will initially
install in this box. The board is an ASUS P4C800-E-D. The PRI_RAID
controller is speced for Ultra ATA133 HDDs. This is not a SerialATA drive.
The original question is: can I install my single drive on this connection
or does it have to go on the primary IDE channel like usual?
Alternately: Could I install 2 ATA100 drives on this channel in a RAID
array?
 
Yes and Yes to your last two questions.

In the BIOS, you set the Promise RAID controller to be a SATA controller,
not a Raid Controller and it will work fine (yes, even with a PATA drive.)
You also need to the non-raid drivers for this to work.

I have the same setup with a 160GB PATA IDE drive working great on the
Promise controller. Prior to that, I had a pair of PATA IDE Drives on the
same single ide port of the Promise Raid controller. Worked fine.
 
Thanks Dan. It's always nice to know that you can do what you're trying to
do before you start. That's why I'm not bald.

: Yes and Yes to your last two questions.
:
: In the BIOS, you set the Promise RAID controller to be a SATA controller,
: not a Raid Controller and it will work fine (yes, even with a PATA drive.)
: You also need to the non-raid drivers for this to work.
:
: I have the same setup with a 160GB PATA IDE drive working great on the
: Promise controller. Prior to that, I had a pair of PATA IDE Drives on the
: same single ide port of the Promise Raid controller. Worked fine.
:
: : >
: > : > : When you state: one ATA then you propably mean SATA HD ???
: > :
: > : If not and you will use one PATA HD then the answer must be NO ...
: wright
: > : ???
: > :
: > I have one Western Digital 120GB IDE ATA100 drive that I will initially
: > install in this box. The board is an ASUS P4C800-E-D. The PRI_RAID
: > controller is speced for Ultra ATA133 HDDs. This is not a SerialATA
drive.
: > The original question is: can I install my single drive on this
connection
: > or does it have to go on the primary IDE channel like usual?
: > Alternately: Could I install 2 ATA100 drives on this channel in a RAID
: > array?
: >
: >
:
:
 
BP said:
I just bought a P4C800-E-D and I'm reading the manual. I understand the
Raid 0 and 1 arrays, but I'm not doing that now. I will have one ATA HDD
on this system to start. The manual is unclear on my options for this
drive. It would be nice to leave all the ATAPI drives (3) on the primary
and secondary IDE channels and have the HDD on the Raid channel. Yes,
this is what RAID is for, but it seems from the manual that the drives
have to be installed in pairs.
Click to expand...

If you want to do RAID, you need more than one drive. If you don't want to
do RAID, you can plug them into the ATA controller (that can do RAID) and
don't set up a RAID partition.

In short, yes., but it won't be RAID.
Can you put one HDD on the PRI_RAID controller as the only HD drive on the
system?
Click to expand...

Yes.

Ben
 
I understand that. It's the actual how-to-do-it I don't understand (yet). I
figure the technical details are just going to be trial and error for me.
I'm going to plug my single IDE drive into the PRI-RAID connector on the
Promise Raid controller, boot into BIOS setup, go to the "Advanced Menu", go
to "Onboard Device Configuratuion", [Enable] the "Onboard Promise
Controller", and then set the "Operating Mode" to [IDE] intead of [RAID].
Then hold my breath and look for smoke, I guess.
If anyone knows the step by step for this setup that sure would be nice to
know.

: BP wrote:
: > I just bought a P4C800-E-D and I'm reading the manual. I understand the
: > Raid 0 and 1 arrays, but I'm not doing that now. I will have one ATA HDD
: > on this system to start. The manual is unclear on my options for this
: > drive. It would be nice to leave all the ATAPI drives (3) on the primary
: > and secondary IDE channels and have the HDD on the Raid channel. Yes,
: > this is what RAID is for, but it seems from the manual that the drives
: > have to be installed in pairs.
:
: If you want to do RAID, you need more than one drive. If you don't want
to
: do RAID, you can plug them into the ATA controller (that can do RAID) and
: don't set up a RAID partition.
:
: In short, yes., but it won't be RAID.
:
: > Can you put one HDD on the PRI_RAID controller as the only HD drive on
the
: > system?
:
: Yes.
:
: Ben
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