XP333-R raid ports

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 7:42 pm

Has anyone installed and used the raid ports as IDE ports only ?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 8:37 pm

not me. I'm using a PCI card RAID controller ( Hpt370). What I would recommend doing tho is setting up your rig on the regular IDE channels first and then enabling the o/b RAID controller and then transfer your HDD over to that. That method worked for me on the KK266R mobos. Just remember to set the BIOS to boot from SCSI before HDD-0 when you swap it over. You're not talking about putting optical devices on the RAID are you? If so, forget it. You can't do that.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 9:08 pm

I don't have that board...But I do know, like Vid said, you can't put any drives other than HD's on raid/ata 1XX ports..

BTW: I am ruing ATA100 on my 7DXR, by default it's RAID. Good luck!

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 9:25 pm

At this time I don't see a use for RAID. I know on a Dragon+ you can use them as IDE ports.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 9:37 pm

I was just speaking of moving a single HDD onto the o/b RAID controller. Not anything RAID.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Feb 04, 2002 10:24 pm

I will give it a shot.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Tue Feb 05, 2002 1:29 am

Ok, I got the raid ports working. Primary Raid port : WD 10 gig ATA66 Master, WD 30gig ATA66 Slave
(not using RAID at this time) I left the DVD and CDRW on the Secondary IDE that they were already on. Went into the bios and set first boot device "scsi". Save and exit. Comp boots up and no DVD or CDRW to be found in Windows. I shut down and moved the DVD and CDRW to the Primary IDE where the hard drives were before and got the same results. The IDE ports, DVD and CDRW are shown in the device manager but not in Windows. What am I doing wrong ?