Asus K8V SE Deluxe Question

[H34D0N]

Well for chritmas I got a ASUS K8V SE Deluxe w/ 3200+ 64 Athlon. I also got a new 300 GB Seagate hard drive. Well I already have my primary ide and secondary ide connections used ( CD Drives and HD's ) so I just set the new HD up to the raid it detects it fine sees all the GB's sets up the HD automatically as 1+0 (this is in the bios setup for the promise raid). But when I boot windows and open Computer Management it doesn't read the HD as being there at all. I have already set up all the drivers for this motherboard in the past. O btw the raid setup is a promise controler. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Andrew

 

[joelslaw]

you can't use the raid plug as just another Ide. It has to be in some sort of raid config. Presonally I would back up all the stuff off the 2 smaller drives, reformat them, put them in raid 0 (they are the same size, model, etc. right), then put the new 300 on the ide channel you freed up. Then restore the back-up to your 2 old drives.

That way you've got a smaller but fast raid 0 array for programs and stuff, and a slower but huge storage drive for your media and crap like that.

 

[cmv]

You mean the PATA RAID socket, right? If so, go into the BIOS and switch the setting for it from RAID to regular usage. You can indeed use that plug for a non-RAID setup but you have to switch the option in the BIOS.

Unfortunately, this has yet to be supported nicely under Linux (there are kernel patches for 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 but I didn't have any luck 2 weeks ago).

 

[joelslaw]

Originally posted by: cmv
You can indeed use that plug for a non-RAID setup but you have to switch the option in the BIOS.

thank you for that! I tryed to ask this question the other day and couldn't get a straight answer, so I just assumed you couldn't (oops)