Raid controller question

[minendo]

My LanParty NFII motherboard has an onboard raid controller which is not being utilized. Can I use this onboard controller as an additional IDE controller to add a 80gb hard drive?

 

[cpars]

Not positive about onboard raid, but both my pci raid cards will handle that just fine.

 

[sharkeeper]

Yes.

Install the drivers so the OS can mount the drive and it will be seen as a normal drive.

Cheers!

 

[LED]

Yes and while the MoBo has both IDE RAID capabilities as well as SATA. There is only 1 SATA header and both SATA and RAID devices cannot be used at the same time on the early revisions. I believe the newer ones have SATA RAID and lost the PATA.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: LED
Yes and while the MoBo has both IDE RAID capabilities as well as SATA. There is only 1 SATA header and both SATA and RAID devices cannot be used at the same time on the early revisions. I believe the newer ones have SATA RAID and lost the PATA.

Thanks for the information. I am currently not using SATA since I can't afford a new drive, but one of these days I'll make the upgrade.