hi all,
just got a giga 8knxp mobo and wanted to hook all my 7 hard drives up i connected my 80gig wd 8mb cache as a boot drive on normal ide master with my cd burner as slave and a dvd reader and writer on other channel, then i put 2 sata 160 maxtors on the sata conectors, 4 other hd's on giga raid controller and this is where probs begin, if i select in bios ide and not raid pc will not boot into windows but during boot up it will detect all my drives which are 2x100gig ibm's 1x120gig ibm and a 40gig maxtor but if i change gigaraid to raid in bios it will boot to windows and only show up the 2x 100gig ibm's and the thing is these 2 drives will run ok on there own no need to be set in raid formation ie raid o etc so is there a way to get all 4 drives working and pc booting into windows and running no probs or will i have to swop out the 40 gig for a 120 gig ibm so drives match up although i would say using controller as a normal ide which bios option is it should work fine but it does not, everything else if fine hyperthreading enbaled and ok 2 sticks of ddr400 generic working fine and a 2.4c cpu. so peeps any ideas spent all this cash and wanna get it sorted.
solaman.
just got a giga 8knxp mobo and wanted to hook all my 7 hard drives up i connected my 80gig wd 8mb cache as a boot drive on normal ide master with my cd burner as slave and a dvd reader and writer on other channel, then i put 2 sata 160 maxtors on the sata conectors, 4 other hd's on giga raid controller and this is where probs begin, if i select in bios ide and not raid pc will not boot into windows but during boot up it will detect all my drives which are 2x100gig ibm's 1x120gig ibm and a 40gig maxtor but if i change gigaraid to raid in bios it will boot to windows and only show up the 2x 100gig ibm's and the thing is these 2 drives will run ok on there own no need to be set in raid formation ie raid o etc so is there a way to get all 4 drives working and pc booting into windows and running no probs or will i have to swop out the 40 gig for a 120 gig ibm so drives match up although i would say using controller as a normal ide which bios option is it should work fine but it does not, everything else if fine hyperthreading enbaled and ok 2 sticks of ddr400 generic working fine and a 2.4c cpu. so peeps any ideas spent all this cash and wanna get it sorted.
solaman.