A8V Deluxe and SATA Drive
Is it possible to run 1 SATA drive on this board as the primary drive? It
appears that evenything related to SATA drives are Raid and have to run in pairs. Am I misunderstanding? There is a Promise Raid Controller and a VIA Controller that runs raid as well. I just want to setup a 1 SATA drive system. Can this MB do this? I have another system with the A7N8X Deluxe and I run it with 1 SATA Drive. Thanks, Marcus |
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"John Hollingsworth" wrote in message ... In article , (Marcus) wrote: Is it possible to run 1 SATA drive on this board as the primary drive? It appears that evenything related to SATA drives are Raid and have to run in pairs. Am I misunderstanding? There is a Promise Raid Controller and a VIA Controller that runs raid as well. I just want to setup a 1 SATA drive system. Can this MB do this? I have another system with the A7N8X Deluxe and I run it with 1 SATA Drive. Thanks, Marcus You can run 1, (or 2), SATA drive(s), off the Promise controller with the BIOS set to "IDE". Some people run 1 SATA drive off the Via controller. Note: look for BIOS screen "advanced", "Onboard devices...", "onboard Promise...", "operating mode" = IDE. The problem comes with running XP64 beta with 2 x SATA drives in IDE mode as separate disks, as there are no drivers for this option at present. The XP64 driver doesn't work with a single SATA in IDE mode either. Can you run the Promise controller in RAID with a single drive ? will XP64 load then ? and do you have to reformat if you change from IDE mode ? John Please remove "NO-SPAM" if sending email. |
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com (m.marien) wrote: "John Hollingsworth" wrote in message ... In article , (Marcus) wrote: Is it possible to run 1 SATA drive on this board as the primary drive? It appears that evenything related to SATA drives are Raid and have to run in pairs. Am I misunderstanding? There is a Promise Raid Controller and a VIA Controller that runs raid as well. I just want to setup a 1 SATA drive system. Can this MB do this? I have another system with the A7N8X Deluxe and I run it with 1 SATA Drive. Thanks, Marcus You can run 1, (or 2), SATA drive(s), off the Promise controller with the BIOS set to "IDE". Some people run 1 SATA drive off the Via controller. Note: look for BIOS screen "advanced", "Onboard devices...", "onboard Promise...", "operating mode" = IDE. The problem comes with running XP64 beta with 2 x SATA drives in IDE mode as separate disks, as there are no drivers for this option at present. The XP64 driver doesn't work with a single SATA in IDE mode either. I know Can you run the Promise controller in RAID with a single drive ? Haven't tried and not sure, but think not. But you can run a single drive with the Via controller. Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1 drive. John Please remove "NO-SPAM" if sending email. |
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What do you mean by " Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1 drive."? Thanks, Marcus "John Hollingsworth" wrote in message ... In article , mm AT RiverCityCanada DOT com (m.marien) wrote: "John Hollingsworth" wrote in message ... In article , (Marcus) wrote: Is it possible to run 1 SATA drive on this board as the primary drive? It appears that evenything related to SATA drives are Raid and have to run in pairs. Am I misunderstanding? There is a Promise Raid Controller and a VIA Controller that runs raid as well. I just want to setup a 1 SATA drive system. Can this MB do this? I have another system with the A7N8X Deluxe and I run it with 1 SATA Drive. Thanks, Marcus You can run 1, (or 2), SATA drive(s), off the Promise controller with the BIOS set to "IDE". Some people run 1 SATA drive off the Via controller. Note: look for BIOS screen "advanced", "Onboard devices...", "onboard Promise...", "operating mode" = IDE. The problem comes with running XP64 beta with 2 x SATA drives in IDE mode as separate disks, as there are no drivers for this option at present. The XP64 driver doesn't work with a single SATA in IDE mode either. I know Can you run the Promise controller in RAID with a single drive ? Haven't tried and not sure, but think not. But you can run a single drive with the Via controller. Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1 drive. John Please remove "NO-SPAM" if sending email. |
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Can you run the Promise controller in RAID with a single drive ? Haven't tried and not sure, but think not. But you can run a single drive with the Via controller. Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1 drive. Thanks. I suspect the drive needs to be repartitioned and formated when I switch controllers so I'll give that a try the next time I need to reinstall. |
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com (m.marien) wrote: [snip] Can you run the Promise controller in RAID with a single drive ? Haven't tried and not sure, but think not. But you can run a single drive with the Via controller. Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1 drive. Thanks. I suspect the drive needs to be repartitioned and formated when I switch controllers so I'll give that a try the next time I need to reinstall. Right. Good luck :-) John Please remove "NO-SPAM" if sending email. |
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Is it possible to run 1 SATA drive on this board as the primary drive? It appears that evenything related to SATA drives are Raid and have to run in pairs. Am I misunderstanding? There is a Promise Raid Controller and a VIA Controller that runs raid as well. I just want to setup a 1 SATA drive system. Can this MB do this? I have another system with the A7N8X Deluxe and I run it with 1 SATA Drive. You've probably already got this working - but in case anyone else needs to know... You can install your single SATA drive on either the VIA primary SATA port, or the Promise one. If you install it on the VIA port, disable the Promise in the Bios (the DEL one, not the TAB one), and vice versa. I suggest you use the VIA port - no reason except it worked for me! Next, make a floppy disk containing the Promise or VIA Raid driver. Obviously you'll need access to another computer to do this! Run the makedisk utility in the appropriate directory under 'Drivers' on the ASUS CD. It tells you to insert a blank floppy, and does a sector copy so you can't get it wrong by copying the wrong files. Turn on your (new) computer and press DEL to go into the BIOS. Select the boot options, and make sure the CD rom is first in the boot order (you can change it back later once XP's installed.) Boot from the XP CD. Almost immediately there's a message at the top of the screen sayig press 'F6 to load additional drivers'. Press it. It doesn't do anything straight away, but a litle later it will prompt you to press 'S' to load the additional drivers from the floppy. When you press 'S', you get a list of VIA SATA drivers. Obviously select the 'XP' ones. If you get a message complaining about an error in a particular line of 'C' code, it's most likely because there's a physical error on the floppy disk. That happened to me. I went back to the other PC and made another driver floppy and all was well. Once XP was installed I immediately loaded the ASUS drivers & utilities. There's one other 'gotcha'. If your hard disk is over 137Gb, your XP boot CD will only format the first 137Gb of it. This is fixed in SP1/SP2, but that may not be on your XP CD. Two solutions to this... 1. You could live with 137Gb to start with, then reclaim the lost space with Partition Magic later, after you've installed SP2 2. You could create a bootable XP install disk, complete with SP2 fixes. Google for 'XP slipstreaming', or look at http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm I did the second one! -- Colin |
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