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7N400 Pro2 and RAID
This MB was originally set up using only the pri and sec IDE channels.
PriM 80gb HD, PriS 80gb HD, SecM CDRW and SecS iomega zip 250. I now want to add a DVD player. What would be the easiest way to configure all hardware? Put both HD on a raid and use the CD,DVD and zip on the IDE channels? Would this require a reinstallation of w2k since the raid drivers were never loaded in setup? TIA mailman |
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This MB was originally set up using only the pri and sec IDE channels. PriM 80gb HD, PriS 80gb HD, SecM CDRW and SecS iomega zip 250. I now want to add a DVD player. What would be the easiest way to configure all hardware? Put both HD on a raid and use the CD,DVD and zip on the IDE channels? Would this require a reinstallation of w2k since the raid drivers were never loaded in setup? TIA mailman If you put the hard drives to Raid channel you will have to reformat,and reinstall. Unless you use the raid slots as normal ATA slots(option in bios). In this case, you will setup dvd rom as primary master setup the boot sequence to start from raid. This way you wont have to reinstall until you decide to add a hard disk to the primary channel. However if you have decided to format then put one hard disk at first raid slot as master, the second hard disk to the other raid slot again as master(this setup maximizes perfomance in raid stripping mode). Put the DVD player as primary master. Copy the raid drivers from your mobo's cd to a floppy disk choose from bios the raid mode, reboot enter the raid utility, define the 2disk array(it will erase everything on your hard disks) and start winxp or win2k setup. My opinion is to put the dvd rom in raid slot(set the slot to ATA from bios). This way you wont need reinstall for sure. |
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Thanx for the help and advice, I always assumed that you could only attach HD to the RAID slot. Since I just put this system together in Jan of this year I see no reason to do a reinstall just to add a DVD player. Will go with your opinion and let you know if I have any problems. TIA mailman Well now that you mention it you may be right. However you may try. Dont be surprised if the gigaraid bios doesnt detect the dvdwriter, just continue booting into windows, install gigaraid drivers and restart. I put two hardrives racks in another board(intel445 chipset) which has gigaraid controller and they work excellent.The gigaraid bios doesnt detect anything (regardless if there is a harddisk inside the rack or not) but winxp see the harddisk when i put one inside the rack. |
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Thanx for the help and advice, I always assumed that you could only attach HD to the RAID slot. Since I just put this system together in Jan of this year I see no reason to do a reinstall just to add a DVD player. Will go with your opinion and let you know if I have any problems. TIA mailman You may need to update your mobo's bios in order to get the ATA option for the gigaraid controller. Strange it is but in the other board with the racks, the harddisk was operating in the rack as a single drive and i could read the data, despite the fact the bios had only the raid option. |
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