Onboard Raid Controller (intel P35 boards)

[Mercutio]

Just setting up a gigabyte P35 based board. The onboard raid seems to be rather slow at sorting things out on bootup (coming from an nforce board where its pretty much instant) is this normal?

Is there any way to turn on raid without the new native SATA controller (cant remember the acronym - ICHR?) handling things? From reading around the only benefits seem to be native command queuing etc?

 

[Mercutio]

Explain this last bit please?

I get the jmicron controller and from how you've worded that I guess this is the purple connectors. Unfortunately I need to make use of IDE CD-ROM (even tho im not sure how ill ever get the cable to reach both my drives) but are you saying if I switch to SATA optical drives I get a much faster boot?

 

[Mercutio]

Ok - I don't think im too fussed, got used to it remarkably quickly. Handy to know I can help it along tho