SATA II on A8N

[skeeder]

I recently got a SATA II drive from Samsung,

When I plugged it into my SATA II ports on my A8N-SLI-Deluxe, it just sad that it was not a valid raid option and then wouldn't boot. However the regular ones work fine. Any ideas? Do I have to have raid if I want to use SATA II?

 

[ZeroH]

you need to go into the BIOS and disable the RAID option for the SATA ports and use it as a normal SATA port. the mobo is already SATA II compliant so it should recognize it ok.

you may want to check Samsung's website to see if you need to set a switch on the drive (via software) to enable SATA II on the drive.. some drives (like Hitachi) are set to SATA I by default.

 

[skeeder]

I tried that, it didn't work.

I'm going to be ordering 2 more, and hope to setup a RAID 5, anyone who have experience with this please put in your input because I've never done this before.