Asus P4PE and RAID

[TheSwede]

Can anyone explain how the RAID connectors on this board work. In the HardOCP review it is mentioned that you can only use either the IDE or the S-ATA and not both at the same time. In the manual however it looks as though you can use them both but on the IDE channel you can only use one HD in mastermode. Can someone clear this up for me please? It seems kind of odd that the IDE channel only supports one drive. A total of three drives on a RAID controller is a first for me.

 

[BDawg]

The IDE RAID adapter can support 1 RAID device. The SATA connector can support 2. You can mix and match RAID between the two adapters.

 

[Dethoff]

I ,too, have read the online manual for this board but remain confused and have another question.

Can either the IDE Raid connector or the SATA be used in a non raid configuration to support additional hard drives? I plan on putting two hard drives on IDE channel 1 and a CDRW and DVD writer on channel 2.

I have no interest in using the RAID array, but would like to add a third hard drive.

Thanks,
John

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Dethoff
I ,too, have read the online manual for this board but remain confused and have another question.

Can either the IDE Raid connector or the SATA be used in a non raid configuration to support additional hard drives? I plan on putting two hard drives on IDE channel 1 and a CDRW and DVD writer on channel 2.

I have no interest in using the RAID array, but would like to add a third hard drive.

Thanks,
John

From what I understand, you may configure a RAID 0 you may use any combination of parallel or serial ports as long as one of them is on the RAID controller.

For a RAID 1 setup, you can only use one of the 2 SATA ports, and 1 drive on the parallel RAID port.

In total, this board can support 9 drives. 4 on the parallel IDE ports, 1 on the parallel RAID IDE ports, and 2 on each of the SATA ports.

 

[bigtimmn2]

Ok, so i think this was already answered, in a convuluted way earlier but here's my question:

My Father-in-law and I are building his computer tomorrow, and here is what we have:

1 DVD
1 CD-RW
1 HD

Now our questions come in as which channels to hook these up to.

He plans on adding a second HD in the future(Probably using the Serial ATA) as well as a DVD-R, and we want to hook it up so we are in a simple plug and go situation in the future.

Now should we use the RAID for the HD ? or should we put the HD on the primary?

If we put the HD on the Primary, can we run the DVD as the slave on that channel?
Or do we have to run the DVD and CD-RW on the Secondary?

I just want the system to work great, with little or no problems with how we have it set up.


Thanks for your help (and in advance for any issues that may arise tomorrow that I know i will be asking you about)

 

[LouPoir]

First,

The Promise raid / serial ATA controller only support HD's.

So either 1 or 2 HD's on the Promise raid controller.

CDR-W on the primary onboard controller as master.
CD-rom on the secondary onboard controller as master.

Lou

 

[bchen74]

 

[bchen74]

i just want to confirm something with this board, i have 2 80gig ATA drives and i want to use the onboard RAID to do RAID 0 on these 2 ATA drives. From what I have read, this doesnt sound like its possible since the board requires you to use ATA + SERIAL ATA or SERIAL ATA + SERIAL ATA??? Can anyone comment on this?

Thanks