Two independent HDs on onboard SATA controller?

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Rui Sá

Does the onboard SATA controller on the A7N8X-E Deluxe support 2 HDs
independently or only in some sort of RAID?

I'm planning to get this mobo and a SATA HD now and would like to be
able to add another one later without using any sort of RAID, as I
won't need neither the performance boost nor the protection provided
by RAID, just the extra space: would this be possible?
 
One SATA drive on Pri Sata 1, one drive on Sec Sata 1.
In other words, you can have a Sata HD on Pri connection and another on Sec
connection.
 
Hello I have recently installed 2 IBM/Hitachi 80gig SATA drives on an Asus
A7N8X Deluxe ver 2 and they appear to be working okay the only problem I get
is if I am moving large files around when a Memory write failure type
message pops up, as yet haven't found out why but it never happened when I
had 2 ATA 80 gig drives in.
Cheers
Alec
 
One SATA drive on Pri Sata 1, one drive on Sec Sata 1.
In other words, you can have a Sata HD on Pri connection and another on Sec
connection.
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Thanks fot the reply: I thought each SATA connector only supported one
HD, what you're saying is that it's like PATA and the two HDs on the
same connector can work independently?

So what is the max. number of independent HDs (not in RAID) on the
onboard controller: 2 or 4?
 
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Rui Sá wrote:
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|>One SATA drive on Pri Sata 1, one drive on Sec Sata 1.
|>In other words, you can have a Sata HD on Pri connection and another
on Sec
|>connection.
|
|
| Thanks fot the reply: I thought each SATA connector only supported one
| HD, what you're saying is that it's like PATA and the two HDs on the
| same connector can work independently?
|

No, he means you can connect (1) HD to each of (2) connections, Primary
and Secondary IDE. And no, SATA is not like PATA, only one device per
connection, they dont chain like IDE.

| So what is the max. number of independent HDs (not in RAID) on the
| onboard controller: 2 or 4?

(2) TWO

hth
Philip


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Philip Callan wrote:

| No, he means you can connect (1) HD to each of (2) connections, Primary
| and Secondary (SATA) not IDE as I wrote in a daze.... (labelled SATA1
and SATA2 on my
p4c800-e)
| IDE. And no, SATA is not like PATA, only one device per
| connection, they dont chain like IDE.
|
| | So what is the max. number of independent HDs (not in RAID) on the
| | onboard controller: 2 or 4?
|
| (2) TWO
|
| hth
| Philip
|
|
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