2 IDE Controllers

[Scootin159]

I have the following IDE combination:

note: Iwill KK266-R Motherboard w/ onboard AMI Raid controller & PCI Promise Ultra66 controller

IDE 1 & 2 from onboard Via 686B controller
IDE 3 & 4 from onboard AMI Raid Controller
IDE 5 & 6 from PCI Promise Ultra 66 Controller

IDE 1: CD-RW(master), CD-ROM (slave)
IDE 2: DVD-ROM (master), Zip Drive (slave)
IDE 3: HDD (master)
IDE 4: HDD (master)
IDE 5: HDD (master)
IDE 6: <empty>

I'll answer first the questions I'm sure I'll get:

Why do you have so many devices, do you really need them all?
Yes, I use them all
Why not just put the HDD on IDE 5 on IDE 3 as a slave?
because IDE 3&amp;4 only support devices that are running RAID. I have the two HDD's on there RAID'ed, but don't want to RAID in that 3rd HDD

Ok, now my problem:

I can't get the Promise controller to work. I called tech support and they said they think (they actually said &quot;they think&quot;, so some uncertainty) that it is uncompatible with the onboard RAID controller. Anyone else know anything about this?

 

[dingdongdingdong]

well it work with only i/o controller card ata100 if your is 66ata than it won't boot up

 

[NelsonMuntz]

The RAID solutions I have dealt with allow you to have other drives not in a RAID array on the channels. I have never tried to set one up with two RAID devices

 

[TunaBoo]

People have told me that wont work.

Yet they make mobos with 8 IDE channels.

I am guessing it will work if you get the IRQ's straight, that will be the main difficulty.

 

[Scootin159]

all the devices say they support IRQ sharing. Tech support said they think the BIOS'es will conflict or something like that.