I've had my current system with a P4P800 Deluxe motherboard for a few months now, and I have been using two IDE chains, one for a set of two 120 GB hard drives that were not in RAID (one Western Digital and one Seagate) and the other for a set of optical drives. Due to my uncanny ability to fill uo drive space, I purchased a third WD drive (also 120 GB), with the intention of setting up a third IDE chain.
According to the motherboard manual: "By default, the drive that you connect to the PRI_RAID [primary raid] connector will follow the ATA133/100/66/33 protocol as an independent drive, not as a disk array." To me, this basically says that if I just slap some devices on the primary RAID channel, it will function as a third standard serial ATA chain unless I specifically set the channel up for RAID.
I started by connecting my boot drive as a single on the primary IDE connector, and set up the other two drives as master and slave on the primary RAID connector. The boot disk and optical drives were recognized, but the drives on the primary RAID connector weren't.
After that, I took notice of the fact that the aforementioned manual statement was worded "...as an independent drive", as in a singular drive on the channel. so I switched the boot disk over to the primary RAID channel as a single drive. It failed to be recognized. Just to check, I also tried connecting the optical drives to the primary RAID, but they failed to work as well.
So I thought I would write to see if anyone has experience with connecting three non-RAID IDE channels on a P4P800 Deluxe. I would certainly be grateful for any insight that anyone might have.
According to the motherboard manual: "By default, the drive that you connect to the PRI_RAID [primary raid] connector will follow the ATA133/100/66/33 protocol as an independent drive, not as a disk array." To me, this basically says that if I just slap some devices on the primary RAID channel, it will function as a third standard serial ATA chain unless I specifically set the channel up for RAID.
I started by connecting my boot drive as a single on the primary IDE connector, and set up the other two drives as master and slave on the primary RAID connector. The boot disk and optical drives were recognized, but the drives on the primary RAID connector weren't.
After that, I took notice of the fact that the aforementioned manual statement was worded "...as an independent drive", as in a singular drive on the channel. so I switched the boot disk over to the primary RAID channel as a single drive. It failed to be recognized. Just to check, I also tried connecting the optical drives to the primary RAID, but they failed to work as well.
So I thought I would write to see if anyone has experience with connecting three non-RAID IDE channels on a P4P800 Deluxe. I would certainly be grateful for any insight that anyone might have.
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