raid as regular ide on p4c800 e deluxe

on my asus p4c800 e deluxe i have a raid o and 1 connector that is the same as a ide. it is to hook up thew raid. can i use this ide channel to just use another hdd without raid enabled

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Sorry I can't answer your question...I actually have another one.

Can you use the onboard SATA and PATA as separate harddrives (not in a RAID config) at the same time?

(eg. I have two PATA harddrives and one SATA harddrive and want to use them all as separate drives..)

Yes and Yes, I believe. Yes you should be able to hook up a eid "ultra ide" also referred to as PATA to the onboard promise controller. I believe you will have to "enable" the promise controller under the chipset/onboard deviced tab and you may have to add the drivers off the cd. I have not tried that connector though and have owned my board 1 week. I don't know if you have to have a true ultra133 or just an ultre which most all are I believe.
As far as SATA, I had my SATA non Raid drive hooked up to the ICH5+R connectors on the board and it worked fine. In fact, I had thought all week that it was actually hooked up on the Promise connectors but I just (1/2hr.ago) realized when I spent the last 5 hrs. trying to get a RAID config going and couldn't detect my drives because I hooked them up to the wrong connectors! So yes you can have 1 SATA working in a non-Raid environment. I did it on the upper connectors! Geez, see what happens when you don't follow/read the instructions!!!As far as the Promise adapter (with the regular eide plug attached) I would "assume you could" But you now know where assumptions got me! hehe Well good luck! can't harm anything anyways
UPDATE Yes you can run Sata non Raid on the Promise controller just follow these steps http://www.techsupportforum.com/computer/topic/10052-1.html