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Help setting up raid

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beamer7296

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I'm using a P5B-E mobo and 2 general maxtor hdd's. One is 200GB and the other is 160GB. There is only one place to plug in an IDE cable on the mobo which was going to my 200gb hdd and my dvd-rw drive. However, I want to add the 160gb hdd only for additional storage space (I don't want a mirror). I have a third party raid card that I got off of ebay a while ago which has 2 more IDE ports. I was hoping someone would help me out. I'd like to use as little software as possible (as I hear alot of the CPU goes into making this happen).

Thanks in advance for your help!
 
You should be able to just throw the card in and install the drivers and then hook up the drive as a single with no problem. Most RAID cards allow single drive setup like a typical IDE channel.
 
I'm not sure where the drivers are (or if there are any that came with it). Would any general raid card drivers work?
 
no. go to your motherboard's website and download the drivers. extract to floppy.


I dropped a nice reply here, not doing it again.


http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1130896



EDIT


You know what, nevermind. I'm going to need you to rephrase exactly what you're trying to do here. I'm completely lost.


EDIT AGAIN

Do you have any sata ports? You could roll SATA --> PATA adapters to your other hard drive.
 
First of all, don't bother with RAID. Your drives aren't matched and RAID wouldn't be worth the effort.

Hardware stuff: Your RAID card may or may not automatically set up your drive as a single drive. Some RAID cards will require that you first go into the config and specify the drive as its own JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) array. I've had to do that before.

Also, after you've installed the RAID card and new HDD, you may find that your motherboard complains about boot devices. Be sure it's set to boot first off your OS drive and take the other drive out of your boot order entirely. This just helps prevent weird problems later.

Software: The best thing to do once you've got your card and drive set up is just boot into the OS and see what happens. It may already have the drivers you need or be able to tell you what the card is so you can find them easier. Drivers are pretty easy to find online if you don't have them.
 
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