IDE Raid Drive Setup

[Cy6nUsX1]

I will be setting up two ATA133 120G 7200RPM Drives as RAID Striped. I am using the ASUS A8N-SLI with the Nvidia Raid controller. The board has two IDE connectors.

For RAID:
1) Do I set both drives to Master?
2) Can I put both drives on one IDE-0, same cable?
3) If I need to put Drive1 on IDE-0 and Drive2 on IDE-1, can I connect my optical drive mid-cable on one of the IDE's in the RAID config?

Thanks.
I read the A8N-SLI manual a few times but this part is not clear to me.

 

[Baked]

Don't put them on same cable. If you have two IDE connectors, set both HD to master and put them on separate IDE channel by themselves. I guess you could put another device in the middle of one of the channels, but I never tried.

 

[Cy6nUsX1]

Thanks, I hope the optical drive, set to slave or CS, will work on the middle of one of the IDE channels otherwise I would be stuck without an optical drive.

Hmmm.

 

[Cy6nUsX1]

Yes you can add non-RAID drives to the "middle" connector on the IDE cables even on a RAID setup. I have two 120 Masters on the ends of IDE0 and IDE1 set in RAID Stripe, a 40gig drive slave on IDE0 mid-cable, and a CD/DVD smoker mid-cable slave on IDE1. It worked fine.