SATA Raid Question

[dv310p3r]

Ok here's my setup:

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum PCB Ver 1.0
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
4GB Kingston RAM - 4x1GB
2 Samsung 7200 RPM - 1TB SATA
2 WD Raptor 10000 RPM - 36GB SATA
1 Additional Drive, can't remember what it is
1 LiteOn DVD RW
1 PCIE ATI Radeon 4650 HD 512 MB

My motherboard has to Raid controllers, and Nvidia and a Silicom 3114. I want to know if I am able to have each of them handle seperate Raid and then have 1 more drive connected as standalone?

In general I have been having some problems getting it all set up. I hope I can get the information I need through here.

Thanks,

 

[bramdo]

From my personal experience I could say the following:

- With a bit of luck (bios limitations etc) it's possible to activate two raid controllers
- use one raid array with 2 identical disks on one controller and do the same with the others
- I would take out the extra hd and put it in an external had cabinet

Bram

 

[Madwand1]

Alternatively, you could try setting up two different arrays on the nVIDIA, and either using PATA for the other, or the other controller, used as non-RAID.