Ide Controller card + SCSI card +raid board, what works?

[steve62]

For my configuration I require the following:

IDE Raid (4 HDD)
onboard IDE (4 IDE/ATAPI devices)
Ide controller card (4 more IDE/ATAPI devices)
SCSI controller card (HDD, etc)

I have an MSI K7T Turbo R motherboard but kept getting conflictions between the onboard Promise Raid chip and the bios on the IDE controller card/SCSI bios. The computer would lock and not boot.

I replaced that board with an MSI K7T Turbo and all the components work well together. But no raid. I would like to set up this system using a raid board. Will the IWill KK266R work in this config? Maybe an Epox 8KTA3+ (hope I got that right). I think the highpoint controller will work..

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Regards,

Steve G.

 

[John]

[*]Have you tried the SCSI card in each pci slot?

[*]are the scsi device terminated properly?

 

[Rellik]

You could contact Magic30 in these forums.
He has an Abit BP6 that has the onboard HPT 366 controller, another
promise ide controller(although not the raid one) and a tekram UW SCSI controller in the setup. All work flawlessly 24/7. Maybe he can help.

I would recommend what John advises. Why don´t you use the onboard raid for raid and get the "standard" controller from promise as a pci card...Or just use w2k built in RAID. It is the same as the ones given by RAID controllers, only downside is that the OS cannot be loaded on the RAID, but since you have a SCSI disk as boot disk, this would not be a problem

 

[cavingjan]

Maybe switch some more deivces over to your SCSI chain. I think your problem is arrising from the two raid controllers as they both will need to be the primary controller. I'm sure there is a work around. I will caution you on the use of two ide raid subsystems. The cpu overhead for that would be fairly high. Just out of curiosity: what case and how many drives are you actually planning on running on this behemoth?

 

[Mikendi]

I think all controller cards are considered SCSI by Windows and all will have 7 as their ID. This could be causing the conflict - I know two Adatec controllers can share the same ID, but mixing IDE and SCSI like that . . . I don't know. You could check here: http://www.scsifaq.org/ for a possible solution. Good luck.

 

[steve62]

Thanks you all very much for your replies.
The problems stemmed from the onboard Promise Raid chip not playing well with "any" other onboard bios. I could manage to get the system to boot with the SCSI card installed (no boot device on the SCSI, heck nothing at all attached to the SCSI) only if I didn't use the Raid IDE ports on the motherboard. If I had my raid setup and functioning it was a no go. The system would almost boot and make it just shy of the windows desk top and then reboot, over and over again.

As fas as the IDE controllers are concerned. I tried both a Promise Ultra 100 (no raid) and an ABit HotRod 66(again raid-less). Neither card would make it past it's bios splash screen.

With my present system which incorporates an MSI K7T Turbo motherbaord (no promise anything onboard) both the HotRod66 and the SCSI card work flawlessly.

What I'm looking for is a Raid motherboard that will work as well as this non-raid version with these other controller cards. It's difficult locating anybody who has run both with their say KK266R IWill or the raid version Epox etc.. Lots of people using either a SCSI card or an IDE controller but not it seems running both.

BTW I was running a Winstation 75GB external HDD on the SCSI card (not bootable).

Thanks again for your replies and any advice is appreciated.

Regards,
Steve G.

 

[steve62]

Hmmm still waiting
busy board today.