John,

What do you mean by " Drivers on Planet AMD64. Set up an array with 1
drive."?

Thanks,
Marcus



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"John Hollingsworth" wrote in message
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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

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