RAID0 Plus SATA In IDE Mode On ICH7R?

jbloggs · 23 Nov 2006 at 15:07

Just bought the Asus P5WDG2-WS Professional which has the ICH7R con., with 4 SATA ports.

What I plan on doing is attaching 2 x 74GB Raptors to ports 1 & 2, set up RAID0 (and use as boot volume), this I know how to do. According to the manual, I could also have another RAID set up with 2 more HDDs attached to ports 3 & 4, however, my question is, instead of having another kind RAID set up using ports 3 & 4, can I just use 2 HDDs attached to ports 3 & 4 in IDE mode, ie just as ordinary HDDs, at the same time as using 2 x 74GB Raptors in RAID0 on ports 1 & 2 as the boot volume, and if so, do I need to make any changes in the BIOS to facilitate this?

Many thanks.

jbloggs · 23 Nov 2006 at 16:19

rpstewart wrote:

You should be able to set the non Raptor disks up as single disk arrays within the RAID config

Good idea, never thought about that.

james32 wrote:

i have 2 raid 0 drives on it the now ill add a another sata later on see if it goes into ide mode

I would be interested to see how you get on with this!

Many thanks.

jbloggs · 24 Nov 2006 at 08:43

snowdog & Snapshot:

Thanks for your replys, which clear up any ambiguities on this subject.

jbloggs · 24 Nov 2006 at 13:26

james32:

Thanks for the feed back.

jbloggs · 25 Nov 2006 at 18:15

Just a bit of an update, was able to setup RAID0 on ICH7R on SATA ports 1 & 2, and then, as suggested connected other SATAs to ports 3 & 4 to run in IDE mode, no problems whatsoever, it runs well.

jbloggs · 26 Nov 2006 at 13:57

james:

does your drive just show as 1 drive under disc management?

Yes, they show up as follows:

My RAID0 set up has 3 partitions, each of which shows up as 1 device in DM, ie C:\, D:\, & E:\, the other 2 HDDs are unpartitioned, and each also show up as 1 device, ie, F:\ & G:\, and the last HDD on the Marvel con. shows up as 1 device also, ie H:\.