K7T Turbo (IDE3 & IDE4)?? [Urgent]

[SKInDER]

Do someone knows if the IDE3 & IDE4 ports on the MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) can be setuped to be used like normale HD and no raid????

 

[DeViSoR]

I think so, not 100% sure, check www.msicomputer.com look at their forum about it.

If I remember you only can have max off 6 ide devises (if you don't hack the bios to give you full fastrak version). When using ide as normal drives on ide 3/4 you have to use 1 hd for each ide. And both drivers must be masters, but doh hmm think you hvae to do the bios hack anyway. To set up raid on each single disk.

 

[SKInDER]

But on the MSI website they said that its a jumper that I have to change (J22) but I don't see it anywhere... or maybe its for the limited edition only....

The fact is: I got one HD 40gig ine my primary Master, One zipdrive in my primary slave, my cdrom and my writer or on my secondary IDE (master and slave). And now I want to set up my old 4gig HD in my IDE 3 to have another HD. (sorry for my english)

I'll check what you said on top... but I'm really not sure.

Thank you

 

[DeViSoR]

Look here

 

[SKInDER]

It's done and it works perfectly! Thank You! And no BIOS hack was necessary.!!!

 

[DeViSoR]

That is for the Limited version, not for the Turbo-R

The bios hack is actually easy to do..

Check my post here about how I did it.

When you do this hack you will be able to set your strip mode how you like it to be. And you can assign 1 ide disk to raid 0 for ide3 and 1 disk for raid 0 on ide4. I think this is the only way.. since the os won't detect none raid devises on the promise controller. Strange that msi made this so damn diffucult tough.

 

[DeViSoR]

great work.

How did you do it with the lite version? Just added it as a single raid?

 

[SKInDER]

yes

 

[NesuD]

simply creating your array with a single drive will allow you to use ide3/4 as a standard ide controller. don't know what all this talk about jumpers and bios hacks is about.

 

[DeViSoR]

Reason for doing the bios hack is to gain speed in raid. But also for being able to use more then 2 drivers on the promise controller.

What is the difference between Lite and Full RAID?
The LITE BIOS are limited to a very restricted RAID implementation as follows:

? Max of 2 Drives
? Fixed stripe size of 64KBytes
? No support for Span mode

With Full RAID you can have:

? Max of 4 Drives (maybe 8?)
? Manual selection of the stripe size
? Support for Stripe, Mirror, Stripe + Mirror and Span!

TweakHardware

 

[SKInDER]

You'll think i'm kind of slow or something but the reason why it wasn't working it's because I forgotted to save my array configuration...