KR7A-RAID & MSI 6380 KT266A RAID Pro RU owners, What do you think about your board ?

poopeyhed2 · March 2nd, 2002, 08:29 AM

Both motherboards mentioned are from highly respected companies, so which ever one you go, you'll be happy...

**phenious** · March 2nd, 2002, 08:48 AM

Hmm... I think the limitation on the MSI board is that the second set of IDE has to be used for HDDs in RAID.... maybe it will work with HDDs.... but I thought I read it only supported HDDs in raid and nothing else... Ill go poke around agian

-: phenious :-

M1pilot · March 2nd, 2002, 02:26 PM

Nope......you can use the RAID controller as a regular IDE controller. I believe the limitation refers to what you can use on the Promise controller. I've got mine set up with my HDD only on the Promise controller, and the CDROM, and CDR/W on the regular IDE controller. Works fine, but I couldn't get anything but my HDD to work properly on the RAID controller. Each component is running on it's own channel. This is on an MSI K7T Raid Limited Edition, but I set up a 6380 not long ago for a friend the same way.

-M1pilot

gixxer11 · March 2nd, 2002, 02:48 PM

I just built my first machine xp1800,kr7a-133-raid,gf3 ti200128mb(gainward)it really clocks!!running dual boot 98 and xp pro.
only problem was with creative 5.1 sound card borrowed an original sb live card and that works.went with the maxtor 7200 60 gig ata133 because it was 110.00 bucks!! so far so good any sugestions welcome

bullgator · March 2nd, 2002, 03:37 PM

I just built 10 systems with the Abit KG7-Raid and the 8 that went to the customer are rockin along nicely. The 2 I kept for myself are
screamin.........Go with the KR7 is my vote. The only difference in the KG and the KR is chipset.....KR has a little bit better set.