RAID question

May 28th, 2002

Hi There...

A quick & really dumb question for all you RAID experts out there!

If I buy a new motherboard with a raid facility, do I need to attach two drives and create a RAID array in order to use it, or could I just connect one drive to it and use it as merely an extra IDE connector?

Hope someone can help.

**Taurus** · May 28th, 2002

one drive is fine. i have 3 harddrives, but none of them are in a raid configuration currently. just using it for extra ide channels.

pretty sure it's not recommended that you connect cdrom's to raid channels, though... just harddrives.

**Qumahlin** · May 29th, 2002

No you can use the raid ports like a normal ide port, although there have been alot of complaints that things don't always work well but it's a case by case situation.

May 29th, 2002

only some raid setups allow that my asus a7v333 only supports hard drives on the raid channels anything else will not get recognized.

May 28th, 2002	Top \| #1
Bablos Unregistered Posts: n/a	RAID question Hi There... A quick & really dumb question for all you RAID experts out there! If I buy a new motherboard with a raid facility, do I need to attach two drives and create a RAID array in order to use it, or could I just connect one drive to it and use it as merely an extra IDE connector? Hope someone can help.

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May 28th, 2002	Top \| #2
Taurus hardware monkey Joined: May 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 3,206 Reputation: 90 Power: 151	one drive is fine. i have 3 harddrives, but none of them are in a raid configuration currently. just using it for extra ide channels. pretty sure it's not recommended that you connect cdrom's to raid channels, though... just harddrives.

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Qumahlin OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: December 2001 Posts: 2,006 Reputation: 0 Power: 145	No you can use the raid ports like a normal ide port, although there have been alot of complaints that things don't always work well but it's a case by case situation.

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loppdawg69 Unregistered Posts: n/a	only some raid setups allow that my asus a7v333 only supports hard drives on the raid channels anything else will not get recognized.