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Paridoth
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Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:
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Ok, im posting here some questions i have about raid cards, mostly
what i thought they did, what i want them to do (if possible) and what
i think they do.
if there is a faq somewere that answers one or more of these questions
then please post away.
alright i bouth a raid card recently
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-104-214&depa=0
that one to be specific.
now i had belived that what raid cards were for where
1. allowing you to use more then the 4 device maximum
2. allowing your drives to use there evtra nifty functions that you
cant use when just using the ide's on your motherboard, like EIDE and
ata/133 thus allowing for higher data transfer speeds then with just
the normal motherboard ide
after reading the manual i got with the cards i learned of the raid
mode setting, the 0 1 and 0+1 and understand them vaguley, however
this is not what i want to do with my raid card yet, now im not sure
if what i want to do is possible, or even understandable but ill post
it here, just let me know if im getting this correctly.
i want to connect my two hardrives and my cd-burner and dvd rom drives
all to my raid card, but as single individual drives, just as if i
were connecting them to the regular ide's on my mobo. why i want to do
this is for higher transfer speeds via the raid card, i want to be
able to transfer faster to my usb hardrive, burn cd's faster, and rip
my dvd collection faster through the dvd rom drive. i also want to be
able to use the operating system on one of the hardrives.
im not sure what my harddrives themselves are ( like ata EIDE and what
not) nor my cdrom drives, i just figured i would plug them in and hope
they were something, anything to speed up my drives.
so yes, basicly i just want my ideas confirmed or denied, can i do
what i want? is it even possible? am i missing the whole picture here?
anything you need to know about my system and my drives i will do my
best to find out.
P.S. i am currently running the burner and dvd rom drives on the raid
card and the hard drives on the ide of the mobo, when i tried to
conect the hardrives to the raid card my OS wouldnt boot (just a blank
black screen)
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Eric Gisin
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Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:
Re: Newbie questions about raid cards |
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Why are you posting to the SCSI newsgroup? Try comp*storage.
"Paridoth" <Sauka@cox.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Ok, im posting here some questions i have about raid cards, mostly
what i thought they did, what i want them to do (if possible) and what
i think they do.
now i had belived that what raid cards were for where
1. allowing you to use more then the 4 device maximum
2. allowing your drives to use there evtra nifty functions that you
cant use when just using the ide's on your motherboard, like EIDE and
ata/133 thus allowing for higher data transfer speeds then with just
the normal motherboard ide
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OomBas
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:
Re: Newbie questions about raid cards |
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"Paridoth" <Sauka@cox.net> schreef in bericht
news:c5607458.0409230202.5f15249e@posting.google.com...
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P.S. i am currently running the burner and dvd rom drives on the raid
card and the hard drives on the ide of the mobo, when i tried to
conect the hardrives to the raid card my OS wouldnt boot (just a blank
black screen)
Paridoth
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Normally with RAID adapters, you must set your MOBO to boot from SCSI first,
even if it's not a SCSI card and you use (E)IDE drives.
And yes, it's quite common to use a RAID controller to use in a non-RAID
configuration, although I do not know this specific card.
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Folkert Rienstra
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:
Re: Newbie questions about raid cards |
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"OomBas" <etcetera@zonderditkabelfoon.nl> wrote in message news:4154005d$0$727$58c7af7e@news.kabelfoon.nl
| Quote: | "Paridoth" <Sauka@cox.net> schreef in bericht news:c5607458.0409230202.5f15249e@posting.google.com...
P.S. i am currently running the burner and dvd rom drives on the raid
card and the hard drives on the ide of the mobo, when i tried to
conect the hardrives to the raid card my OS wouldnt boot (just a blank
black screen)
Paridoth
Normally with RAID adapters, you must set your MOBO to boot from SCSI first,
even if it's not a SCSI card and you use (E)IDE drives.
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Only if you have drives attached to what comes before SCSI.
| Quote: | And yes, it's quite common to use a RAID controller to use in a non-RAID
configuration, although I do not know this specific card.
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Paridoth
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:
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Normally with RAID adapters, you must set your MOBO to boot from SCSI first,
even if it's not a SCSI card and you use (E)IDE drives.
And yes, it's quite common to use a RAID controller to use in a non-RAID
configuration, although I do not know this specific card.
OB
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I did have it set to scsi boot at the time that it just gave me the
blank screen, i think it may have been that it was set to stripped
(mode 0) at the time with a blank 40 GB HD, so my next question is how
to get this thing to function in a non raid mode.
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