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IDE Raid Drive Setup

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Cy6nUsX1

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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