I have a RAID versus IDE question?

[DarkFudge2000]

I own the ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard. I have 1 SATA HD connected as the main drive, I just went out a bought a 2nd Hard Drive. A Maxtor 300Gig Ultra ATA/133 Hardrive......I plugged this drive into the RAID Ultra ATA 133 connector because I want to take advantage of ATA 133 and the IDE channels on the MB are only ATA100, but when I boot up Windows it wont see the second drive.

Did I do something wrong?...On boot up, the BIOS seems to see the 300gig Maxtor drive on its Raid Ultra ATA controller but when Windows launches, it only shows the 1 drive.

Maybe I didnt configure something in the BIOS right, I switched from RAID to IDE....is that why?....Can I have just one single drive hooked up to this controller?...or must there be 2?


I dont really want to set up a RAID....firstly because I dont know what it does, and secondly, dont you need 2 indentical drives to set up a Raid?

Can someone point me in the right direction?


thanks all!

 

[DarkFudge2000]

thanks....Im a bit confused

I have my primary drive plugged into the SATA interface on the motherboard ( this works fine )
I have 2 DVD Burners plugged into my IDE interfaces ( they both work fine )

I am now simply trying to install a 2nd hard drive, Maxtor 300gig Ultra ATA/133, as a backup drive but I dont want to plug it into one of the IDE channels because the manual says they only support 100ata. So I am simply trying to use the onboard Promise Raid controller that supports Ultra ATA/133 to setup my secondary HD but I am not really interested in a RAID setup. Is this possible or am I not able to use this Promise Controller for basic Hard Drive support?...Im not very well versed on RAID stuff

thanks for your help

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: DarkFudge2000

I am now simply trying to install a 2nd hard drive, Maxtor 300gig Ultra ATA/133, as a backup drive but I dont want to plug it into one of the IDE channels because the manual says they only support 100ata.

Try it. The worst that could happen is that it'll run at ATA 100 speed.

 

[Heidfirst]

you probably need a driver for the Promise controller.
btw it's unlikely that your drive will do 100 let alone 133 - that's the interface limit but the mechanics won't provide that