Switching SATA mode from IDE to RAID with a reinstall?

probedb · 16 Oct 2008 at 13:45

Is this possible.

I have an older Skt939 ASRock board and wanted to use the eSata features.

I had thought about installing the RAID driver then restarting and seeing what happened?

Cheers

Paul.

Jumping · 16 Oct 2008 at 15:43

Installing a raid driver wont do much difference if you only have 1 drive. Also you need to configure the drives for raid before you can use it.

IAmATeaf · 16 Oct 2008 at 18:52

The RAID drivers normally wouldn't install before the BIOS has been set accordingly but if the BIOS is set to RAID then the PC most likely won't boot.

If you have another SATA controller then you could do what I did. Move the OS boot drive over to this controller and make sure it's running in IDE mode. Boot the system up to make sure it boots, change the BIOS settings for the other SATA controller to RAID and boot, install the drivers and reboot to make sure the system comes up. Then shut down and move the OS disk back onto the main controller and hopefully the system should boot up.

probedb · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:29

Good plan cheers for that

I'll give it a go.

Jumping...I don't want to use RAID but AHCI or RAID are needed to get things like hot swap.

IAmATeaf · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:51

probedb said:
Good plan cheers for that I'll give it a go.

Jumping...I don't want to use RAID but AHCI or RAID are needed to get things like hot swap.

By the way when I say another SATA controller I mean a separate controller on the mobo not just another SATA port.