ASUS P5W DH Deluxe and SATA connections?

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I`ve got myself a ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard and three SATA II hard drives and I know nothing or very little about SATA and RAID!

I have read a bit about RAID and at the moment i`m not interested in setting up a RAID configuration and this I understand reading the motherboard instructions can be turned off in the BIOS.

Can I connect three hard drives to the motherboards SATA1, SATA3 and SATA4 connections with no RAID configuration?

Second, i`m thinking of getting a SATA DVDR drive, or a fourth hard drive, my question is where do I connect it? On the motherboard it has three other SATA connectors, SATA_RAID1, EZ_RAID2, EZ_RAID1 can it be connected to one of these connections?

thanks in advance :)

Lee
 
rickmoz said:
You can connect upto sata 1,3 and 4 with out using raid this is how i have set mine up (dont understand raid so dont use it).
yeah thats what I thought, cheers :)

Anyone answer my second part of the question? :)
 
It would have to be the E-Sata connection at the back of the drive with an external DVDr drive or a external Harddrive.

The EZ_RAID2, EZ_RAID1 is excaclty that, raid only, and i could not get it to work with two raptors even using a august 2006 winxp disc and with the latest bios and going with the instructions in the manual. odd that there is no raid driver, it's meant to work without but i couldn't. :/

The other sata connection below the cpu "the black one" only works in conjunction with the E-sata connector at the back for a raid setup.

So the motherboard that cost £152 only has three sata 3.0GB connectors if you want a non-raid setup.

I have had to install a sata controller to get a DVDr drive and another raptor to work, very poor motherboard with respect to connectors.

I didnt want a raid setup but it is impossible from what i can see to connect any more than three sata devices to this motherboard.
 
"Thanks for that Bin Boy, SATA controller it is then.".....

If you haven't bought an add-on Sata controller yet, note that you can use the JMicron controller to run 2x Sata devices [HDD or DVD writer] and an ATAPI drive [like DVD writer] or std IDE HDD via the black 40-pin connector near the edge of the board.

In the Bios, enable the JMircon controller and set the mode to basic as well as enabling the Sata BootRom function. Thereafter, if Win XP doesn't recognise the drive/s [but it should be seen in the Bios setup pages, regardless], install the JMicron Raid [Win XP] program and it will see the drives, Sata and/or IDE. You can uninstall the Raid software after that, if so wish and it will still recognise the drives in Win XP.

That EZ-Backup Raid Asus fantasy brainchild nonsense was developed after a non-stop session of birdnest souping in downtown taipei by those panda designers. "It's so cute and clever"... ain't it so.... me nutters.... It's sllooowww, bugggy, subject to violent fits of high FSB-titis, and robs every sane Ahsus P5W buyer of one crucial and vital SATA port. It's time these dumbed down trailblazing designers leave those poor pandas alone for the cutenss of pandas are best left to their natural mating habits.
 
Yes. Just the standard Sata cable but you'll need power for the drive so either you can hook up some DIY setup or you can use some sort of external Sata enclosure. The support for 2 Sata drives includes the external port [eStat], ie one internal and one eSata.

Those brainless ninnys at Intelligence Inc. always imagined that they are Lords of Change and feel that they can dictate any change [like the way some people blow gas] without fore-thought for others' existing equipment. They want people to drop all legacy devices [like PS/2, para/serial ports] as well as IDE overnight. These inward looking dumb-blatts [like all dumb-blatts], do not realise that people, as a whole, needs time to change.
 
Well I need an eSata cable to Sata cable, I never got any eSata cables at all which is a shame, ordered an eSata to Sata cable, so that should sort it :).

I didn't seem to get that much with this motherboard, I got much more with my Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and A8N-SLi Premium motherboards.
 
"It won't work. " ..

You are correct, of course. An what's wrong with just using a standard L-keyed Sata cable instead of a special e-unkeyed cable. So that you have the brainlessness to pay the extra dosh for it?

The brainlessness refers to people who designs things to make something out of nothing in order that they can sell more for the sake of what? Like making more rules for greeney looney types to worship?

Greeney Looneys are the type of people who have such emptiness that they desperately scour the earth to find "new" things to champion and having done that, they can then claim to be part of a fantastic existence. "See, I'm better than you". A real nit-wit of a pompous arty-farty, airy-fairy, reverse-upperty class. Like hippy "counter-culture" types. All they want is exclusivity and that is called mobbing. Don't worship "technology", etc. Just present the truth in any given matter. In the end, all people are trying to do, is to give justification for their empty existence. What people lack is Truth [which they don't even know].
 
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Cir108 said:
"It won't work. " ..

You are correct, of course. An what's wrong with just using a standard L-keyed Sata cable instead of a special e-unkeyed cable. So that you have the brainlessness to pay the extra dosh for it?

The brainlessness refers to people who designs things to make something out of nothing in order that they can sell more for the sake of what? Like making more rules for greeney looney types to worship?

Greeney Looneys are the type of people who have such emptiness that they desperately scour the earth to find "new" things to champion and having done that, they can then claim to be part of a fantastic existence. "See, I'm better than you". A real nit-wit of a pompous arty-farty, airy-fairy, reverse-upperty class. Like hippy "counter-culture" types. All they want is exclusivity and that is called mobbing. Don't worship "technology", etc. Just present the truth in any given matter. In the end, all people are trying to do, is to give justification for their empty existence. What people lack is Truth [which they don't even know].

Because Sata connections are designed for 50 insertions before failure and are not shroud sheilded for EM interference, nor are they very robust. The eSATA plug is a redesign for 5000 insertions with extra continuous sheilding up to 2m. With a reinforced and increased insertion depth. Making it far less susceptible to damage. As for a lack of Truth or hippy worship, I think it more just a design consideration for an external application which is beyond the original scope. With three toddlers, at times I wish my existance where just a little more empty. In a peaceful way only of course.
 
The case here is another standard which will not last. More headache and expense for the end user. It's like punishing ["screwing" to be exact] people who've placed their hard-earned money and time to allow a commercial entity to flourish. So, why not 10,000 insertions? These things happen not only because we want others to do our thinking for us, we are actually encouraning them to do so when we don't voice objections that are valid.

They've allowed 2 space shuttles to drop from the sky [and more "accidents" will follow], so what is a little 50-insertions and whose "insertion" is it, btw. Just because someone with "credentials" opens his [usually empty] mind with the backup of "this & that", doesn't mean we should read it. We should always rebel but with a cause. That's why the only “thing” that will last is Truth, not someone's/corporate body’s/standards committee’s idea thereof for those ideas are always based on commercial [read: greed] considerations. Yes Blue-Ray vs HD and HD TV standards & RIAA. These are just ideas to churn amortised investments.

So, "stirring the muck" is the way forward. Nature does that all the time for comforts are addictions which are the results of letting others do our thinking for us. How I wish I can "convince" everyone with a bank account in the whole wide world to just let me have one miserable penny of their money. No skin off their backs, is it? Now, when that is accomplished, what’s next? Put my willy-nilly here-there-and-everywhere.? Sure, but what after that? C’mon, another penny is still no skin off everybody’s back, is it? People are just too miserly and ignorant, aren’t they?

Stirring the muck, or Evolution, is not to stand still but going forward and going forward does not mean larger/weirder “sci-fi” like brains, or technology, or greeney looney “correctness” nonsense. Those are merely going round-and-round [cyclical] events. All errors and troubles are to alert us to our higher awareness and not to alert us to another screwing opportunity, allowing us to amass more of anything. Anybody who is “pro” anything is wrong. ANYTHNG. Why? Because all that we need, knowledge, meaning of existence, beauty, Absolute Truth, etc, etc, are within the normal, typical human being [and there are quite a few who looks human but aren’t]. When we stop engaging on the outside [ie not actually stopping but not allowing “outside” events to influenced & unbalanced us – to witness and not to judge/act/react], we will find all the answers inside. And that includes “dynamic” illnesses [in fact this is the first “bounty” we’ll received/become]. We’ll soon “see” what all the quackery is about. Yes, the kraken that blair unleashed by comforting “doctors” with a £100k/annum wage to have saturdays off through “new”, “improved” management methodology, is another prime example of “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Knowledge is potential power. We have to become the knowledge, not own it and “onwership” is about believing in a potential. Believing what others tell us as opposed to our innateness which all humans have. Innately, we know it is incorrect to introduce poisons into our body, but EVERYONE is doing just that and “doctors”, those pimps for the pharmaceutical industry, are leading the vanguard. “Physican, heal thyself” ... first.
 
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