Confused: IDE vs. RAID

[Quad]

hey all

i was looking at some mobo pics and i saw that there was pretty much 5 i/o ports: 1 floppy, 2 ide, and 2 for raid <-- correct me if i'm wrong.

so anyways, my question is: Should i be using the ide ports for my hdd/cdroms or the raid? i understand that i probably dont' need raid support, so should i just leave those raid ports alone and not plug anything in to them?

thanks all
quad

 

[Quad]

bump

 

[LordSandMan]

I believe you can use the Raid ports just like a regualar HD controller. In the bios of the Raid controller you get the option to make a raid drive out of whatever drives are connected to it. The raid drive will then show up as one hard drive to the computer.


Edit - &quot;Quad's bitchin' P1!&quot; I hope this means your considering an uprade.

 

[minus1972]

yeah..IDE for the CD-ROM, etc., and RAID for the two identical HD's...if you want to use RAID that is.

 

[hifimaster]

Just have your reguler hard drives hooked up to the raid controller,and you cd roms hooked up to the IDE controller.The raid controller is a normal Ide controller with raid capabilitys.

 

[gabegarwick]

Well, for example the ABIT KT7A-RAID Socket-A KT133A ATX mobo supports RAID modes 0, 1, and 0+1.

For explanations of Raid configs, please see this page right here

thanks,
Gabe

 

[Quad]

ohhhh, thanks guys

last question: so since the 2 raid controllers can function as regular ide controllers, does mean i have a total of 4 potential ide controllers? so i could use 8 ide devices at once?

thanks again

 

[Fandu]

exactly