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October 3rd, 2005, 08:49 PM
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My mobo supports one SATA drive and has two IDE connectors. Can I use an SATA drive as my master, and still have two IDE drives as slaves, (actually one ATA 133, one IDE)?
If so, could I RAID them all together? | 
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October 3rd, 2005, 10:02 PM
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I'm guessing by master you mean boot disk, and so thats "yes".
As for #2 you probably can't do a hardware raid. You could only do a dynamic volume in windows (if you have like XP), in software, so the answer is "meh".
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October 3rd, 2005, 10:04 PM
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Yes, you can use as many SATA and IDE drives as your mobo supports....
You cannot RAID IDE drives with SATA drives.
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October 3rd, 2005, 11:58 PM
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Thanx 'yall. This really was just curiosity.
I couldn't RAID only the IDE drives, could I?
BTW, what is "dynamic volume"? | |
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October 4th, 2005, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Blitzkreig75 Thanx 'yall. This really was just curiosity.
I couldn't RAID only the IDE drives, could I?
BTW, what is "dynamic volume"? | You're welcome 
You could, but that would require you to have an IDE RAID card or option on your mobo, most mobos do not come with intergrated IDE RAID features...
I also wanted to know what dynamic volume is, I aksed not too long ago, but never got a response. | |
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October 4th, 2005, 03:05 PM
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It's that thing you do in rightclick My Computer/manage/Disk Management
Theres a little guide here
I really don't recommend it, unless you have an entirely empty hd. I mean hd not partition. Quote: |
Originally Posted by From the guide They have a learning curve and the chances of screwing something up is substantially higher than working with basic disks. | | |
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October 4th, 2005, 05:27 PM
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My mobo has a RAID driver included on the disk that came with it. Also, XP shows a RAID controller in device manager. I beleive this means my mobo has an onboard RAID controller.
How would I set them up, (the IDE drives), I've never used RAID. | |
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October 4th, 2005, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Blitzkreig75 My mobo has a RAID driver included on the disk that came with it. Also, XP shows a RAID controller in device manager. I beleive this means my mobo has an onboard RAID controller.
How would I set them up, (the IDE drives), I've never used RAID. | Your mobo most likely only has a SATA RAID controller because as I already mentioned, most motherboards only have SATA RAID. If you do not have onboard IDE RAID, then if you wish to use IDE RAID, you would have to get a PCI IDE RAID card.
When you setup RAID, you would most likely have to wipe the drives, I think there may be one RAID option where you do not have to, but I am not sure. | |
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