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[awol]

i'm running raid0 right now... and my question is: can i use the raid ports as regular ide ports? like having 4 more ide devices... if so how do i use it in that fashion?

or are the raid ports only good as raid ports and nothing else?

thanks for any info.

 

[Da Whip]

To the best of my knowledge, No. These are raid specific. I looked at the manual (which is buggy at best) and that is how it sounds.

 

[awol]

that bites... seems like i'm s.o.l.

thanks for the reply...

 

[el]

yes you can! raid 0 with one drive is fine.

go to www.fullon3d.com and check out the FAQ

 

[awol]

el (Jun 25, 2001 07:48 a.m.):
yes you can! raid 0 with one drive is fine.

go to www.fullon3d.com and check out the FAQ

hey, thanks for the link... and it looks like i'm saved after all... i will do it when i have some time in a few days...

thanks again.

 

[guppie]

this may be a stupid Q, but we all have them... Do you need 2 identical HDDs to use RAID function? I have WD 15GB U100 7200 RPM and WD 30GB U100 7200 RPM drives. If I use RAID, then I lose 15GB of the 30GB? Also, is there any benefit of being able to have all devices as Primary drives HDD1, HDD2, CDRW, and DVD? (assuming I can manage to get the RAID IDE connectors to work without using RAID) as you mention... Otherwise, I won't waste the extra money for the RAID mobo...

 

[awol]

guppie (Jun 26, 2001 06:17 p.m.):
this may be a stupid Q, but we all have them... Do you need 2 identical HDDs to use RAID function? I have WD 15GB U100 7200 RPM and WD 30GB U100 7200 RPM drives. If I use RAID, then I lose 15GB of the 30GB? Also, is there any benefit of being able to have all devices as Primary drives HDD1, HDD2, CDRW, and DVD? (assuming I can manage to get the RAID IDE connectors to work without using RAID) as you mention... Otherwise, I won't waste the extra money for the RAID mobo...

you don't need 2 identical drives to use raid.
yes, you will lose 15gb if you use raid.
i don't think there'e any advantages to having everything as primary... none that i know of...

my only advantage now is that i can hook up 2 more devices and i'll have double my hd capacity back... w/o raid0.