Adding third SATA drive to Asus m/board with only 2 ports

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

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I have a large SATA drive I want to add to an oldish Asus m/board that currently has 2 W/Digital drives in a RAID format on the only 2 SATA ports on the board. I want to forgo RAID and have the 3 drives in a conventional format. Can I buy a card that will allow this? I got a card that in hindsight appears to only want to work with another 2 drives in a RAID on it....As it stands I can't see, nor can my bios, the third SATA drive. A friend thinks I need a card with onboard bios to see more SATA drives? OS is Windows 2000, I want Obuntu on, or the option of more drivesapce unders Windows, from the 3rd drive.

Thanks :)
 
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This is the card I have:

http://www.newlinkproducts.co.uk/prodinfo.asp?catID=6&prodID=185

Before I waste your time can you tell me if it is indeed possible to use this card to add a *SINGLE* additional SATA drive to the existing 2 in RAID1 on the motherboard SATA sockets? I am beginning to wonder if the card is only designed to work with *2* drives in a RAID and not to add just one single SATA drive to an existing RAID 1 SATA pairing? Thanks.
 
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I just refiited the card, but I didn't load the CD software this time, that came with it. The PC now "sees" the new big SATA drive and its BIOS is now coming up :) However, the bios for the card shows first, the RAID drives BIOS shows second. My problem now is that I can't boot into windows, it boots Obuntu Linuxs' GRUB everytime, which is installed on an IDE drive off one of the ribbon cables. There are also an IDE CD player and an IDE DVD recorder on the IDE motherboard connectors. No matter which boot drive I select in the PC's BIOS screen I can't get it to boot 2000. It just boots the IDE drive with Linux on it. I suspect I need it to boot the RAID drives BIOS first? Is there a way round this? Thanks for any help, I am a lot out of depthe here!
 
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