Can I use the RAID IDE slot for a nonraid setup

[jamerdean]

here's the deal, I have a MSI K333 RAID mb and i want to plug a hard drive into the Raid IDE slots without it being RAID. Is this Possible?

thanks for any info.

jam

 

[jdogg707]

should be, probably just need to change setting away from RAID in the BIOS to regular ATA

 

[buckmasterson]

If the motherboard doesn't have that selection, you will have to load the raid drivers (but don't set up the raid). I set up a wierd combo for a guy a year ago that had the hard drive, CD ROM, CD Writer, and a Zip drive using all four slots. Works like a charm and the Zip drive doesn't slow down the hard drive bacause it's on it's own cable. I did have to move some drive letters around for him in Windows though.

About a month ago he wanted to try Windows XP Pro (originally we put SE on it) so I set up his hard drive to dual boot. Still works like a charm.