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Setting HDD for Raid?

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Tripleshot

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I am now installing 3 maxtor 20gig HDDs in moblie bays with trhe intention to render them hot swapable, on an Abit BX133 raid board.How do I select the settings for each harddrive? Are they all masters,or are they set according to the IDE cable position as slave and master?

I know it sounds silly,but there is no answer in the manual. I question it because I will have to label the drives and bays externally to remind me of the setting so I don't mess up if a drive goes bad.It would not be an issue if they are all masters,however I'm not sure how raid detects them in bios.

Some let me know before I install all these drives in the carriers wrong,please.

Thank you.
 
IDE drives are not hot swappable.

As for the drive slave/master question, there are 2 drives on a chain, 1 must be the master and 1 the slave.
 
Thank you Fandu. I setit up in that fassion. I wondered about IDE being hotswappable,and believe it or not,I found a software program today that allows for hot swap IDE. As soon As I get this new rig built and booted,I will get back to you on the link to that software. It's a free dwwnload.
 
np.

I'd be very interested in hot swappable IDE drives. I was of the understanding that IDE is not hot swappable because it lacks the hardware and protocol to initialize and detect swaps while running.
 
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