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IDE or RAID BIOS on SATA controller card?

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jimndeb@u.washington

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I'm flashing the BIOS and updating the drivers on a new I/O flex Serial ATA PCI host controller model PSA 150 with the silicon Image chipset SATA3112.

silicon Image offers two Bios .bin files and two seperate drivers one for RAID and one for IDE.

I don't know which one to use.

This sounds like a dumb question to me too, because I don't want to set up an RAID array.
But... I'm using the controller card to run a single Serial ATA HDD, not an IDE HDD.
Where does IDE come into this picture? Serial ATA Port hosted on a PCI slot connected to a Single WD Raptor SATA HDD.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks
jimndeb
 
Is this really that lame of a question? I can't find reference to it in the silicon image FAQ, Google, this fourm...

If I am not planning on using raid I think that I shouldn't use the RAID drivers and BIOS.
If I am not using an IDE drive (with an adapter to plug it into the SATA Host card) I think that I shouldn't use the IDE drivers and BIOS.

Any Ideas?

Thanks.
jimndeb
 
sata is a form of ide, your confusing the definition of ide and pata.

No big deal.

You would be better installing it as ide if you are not running a raid array. Load the ide drives, not the raid.
 
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