Using Highpoint Serial ATA adapters With IC7

Just got a IC7 Board, Great board

I Have 2 Maxtor HD`s had them on my TH7-II Raid ,
Am I right in thinking I can connect them up to the Serial ATA`s on the IC7 via 2 Highpoint Rocket Head 100 Serial to IDE converter`s, Or can you only use Abits own Serial 2 adapters?

Thanks in advance

SATA adapters

I am using a cheap adapter I bought at Fry's to supplement the Abit adapter included in my IC7. Works fine.

Re: SATA adapters

Geezer said:

I am using a cheap adapter I bought at Fry's to supplement the Abit adapter included in my IC7. Works fine.

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what bios are you using?

most peeps say u can't use other adaptors after the 1.1 bios.

mica

Martin Lewis said:

Just got a IC7 Board, Great board

I Have 2 Maxtor HD`s had them on my TH7-II Raid ,
Am I right in thinking I can connect them up to the Serial ATA`s on the IC7 via 2 Highpoint Rocket Head 100 Serial to IDE converter`s, Or can you only use Abits own Serial 2 adapters?

Thanks in advance

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Hey there Martin Lewis ,

I have heard others using Highpoint Rocket adapters on their IC7 but not sure how reliable (compatible) they really are .

I personally would go with the Abit Serillel2 adapters to avoid any problems now or down the road .

Mica and myself both use the Abit Serille2 adapters on our IC7's in a RAID config with NO problems at all .

I suggest you spend a few extra $$$ and go with the Serillel2 for the BEST results .

You can purchase the Abit Serillel2 adapters HERE at Excaliberpc.com




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stereo555

Hi,

Thats what i thought, I`ve got 2 Sata adapters abit v2`s coming monday.

there are a lot of SATA to IDE converters, but there are still only two made. silicon image makes a IDE-SATA bridge chip and marvell does. It seems to make sense that since the abit converters use the silicon image chip, any converter with a silicon image chip would work if they took measures to ensure only their converter works

Just a Update I got 2 Abit serial ATA adapters v2,
Connected them up to my IC7 via 2 Maxtor`s, booted up, setup bios, then created raid array, repartioned and installed Win XP Pro no problems whatsoever

Martin Lewis said:

Just a Update I got 2 Abit serial ATA adapters v2,
Connected them up to my IC7 via 2 Maxtor`s, booted up, setup bios, then created raid array, repartioned and installed Win XP Pro no problems whatsoever

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stereo555