connect 2 ide hdds as a raid

[savio]

how can i connect 2 ide hdd to form a single hdd or a raid

[savio]

please give me a reply

[muarrif]

Which operating System are you using?

Which Motherboard and hard drives are you using?

[no1_vern]

Hi Savio,

Welcome to TechIMO!
Unless the motherboard has special hardware on it, you cant. Thats why muarrif asked which Mobo and what hard drives you were using.
If your mobo cant, you will need to buy an adapter card to allow you to run raid. Also you will need special drivers for your operating system.

[savio]

im using a pentium 4 1.7ghz 845 chipset motherboard and ill be usin windows xp or 2kserver

[savio]

i want to connect 2 ide hard disk 80 gb

[muarrif]

One hard drive set as master on IDE3
One hard drive set as master on IDE4
Enable the promise raid controller.

Then fdisked at which point it should see the full volume of both drives.

Then boot to the XP CD and press F6 when prompted to insall the raid drivers.


I hope you have the drivers press F6 when installing XP and insert the disk with raid drivers

That board should have On-Board IDE RAID Controller. This is an additional IDE interface for 1-4 drives in RAID mode (0, 1, 0+1) or single setup. RAID requires at least two drives. RAID 0 (striping) passes data to all attached drives simultaneously, resulting in a tremendous performance increase. RAID 1 (mirroring) copies the data simultaneously onto a second drive, ensuring excellent data safety. If one drive crashes, the other one remains operational.

so make sure the drives are on raid controller.

[savio]

but ihave connected my hdd on ide 1 as pri mater & slave
i have to do instalation as a raid hdd
my mother board is a normal desk to mbhow will i enable a raid controller
on it

[muarrif]

But are they connected to the Third IDE slot (for raid)

[savio]

there r no 3rd slot
only 2 slot are ther