"D. Vujaklija" wrote in message
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In article ,
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I was just reading the manual for this board...you can't connect ATAPI
devices to the RAID connectors (pg 2-27).

Not too many options
- put HD on Primary RAID and DVD-ROM on Primary IDE.
- run DVD as slave to HD (not really recommended)
- turf an optical drive...probably not what you want to achieve
- get an IDE card that supports ATAPI...good luck...I read they can be a
bit
quirky.

Cheers, Cliff

Thanks for reply Cliff.
I have another question for your 1st suggestion: is it necessary to use
raid if I connect HD to pri_raid port or just enable VIA controler for
raid and not set_up raid (use it as standard IDE port)

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You can run HDs, optical drives and other IDE devices on the Primary and
Secondary IDE channels;

You can run HDs on the Third and Fourth IDE channels IF they are S-ATA (or
P-ATA, with P-ATA to S-ATA converters);

You can run HDs on the VIA RAID ports as RAID, Non-RAID, or a combination of
both (I'm running RAID 0, and 2 independent disks on these controllers).

The VIA RAID controller configures attached HDs as independent disks
(Non-RAID) by default. You only get RAID if you intentionally set it up.

HTH


Des