a7n8x ... is it possible?

[blindspot]

Is it possible to install all of the following together?
1 DVD-ROM
1 CDRW
1 DVD-RW
2 Hard Drives

I wonder.

 

[Atif]

Well, there's support for four IDE devices, so you would probably have to buy SATA to ATA convertors to use all those devices

Peace

 

[Vape]

you can get a mobo with raid on it, that will allow 8 devices to be connected. since abit introduced raid on their line of mobos, i have gone with raid ever since due to me having:

ls120
dvd
cdr
2x hdd

working all fine on abit kt7a-raid.

having raid onboard doesnt mean you HAVE to use it in raid config, if not, then it acts as ide 3 and ide 4 interfaces apart from standard ide1 and ide2.

 

[REMF]

is the silicon image SATA raid chip bridged over the two ATA channels on the Abit/Asus nForce2 board?

i.e. could i have two SATA harddrives on the SATA channels, and a DVD drive and writer on the ATA channels?

REMF

 

[Atif]

From the official specifications for the Sil 3112:

The SiI 3112 supports two independent Serial ATA devices and can be incorporated in a motherboard design or a PCI add-in card.

When an adapter is used, only one device per SATA cable can be used.

Peace

 

[AntMan]

I did that exact setup 'blindspot', but used a pci raid solution..


Just go and grab a cheap promise tx2 or a high point raid card... Won't cost you too much and you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[mechBgon]

You could get a SCSI card and have up to 14 hard drives... 😉

 

[blindspot]

thanks all.