Post by LancelotThank you. Would I install those drivers ahead of physical install of the
drive and also will it become the 3rd drive or does the raid slot become the
primary?
It doesn't matter, the drives will not show up under windows XP till you
install the drivers for the controller. They will show up under DEVICE MANAGER
as SCSI controller device or something like that.
If you are going to use the VIA Raid controller for your boot drives with a
fresh new install of XP, you need to create a floppy disk with the drivers for
when you get to the point where it asks for you to hit F6 or whatever key to
load floppy with drivers for 3rd party controller. Been so long , i dont
remember. You wouldnt do it this way unless you were going to do raid on the
system.
You decide in the bios what Hard Drive subsystem you want as boot. Whether it
be the built in Intel controller, the VIA Raid controller we are talking about
here (It runs as a regular IDE controller unless you configure the drives as
raid), or a SATA drive.
Thats why i loved this motherboard for so long before i upgraded to a Core 2
Duo system. It had the capability of running 8 IDE devices off one board and a
few SATA drives too!!!!!!
Post by LancelotPost by GMANPost by LancelotI have a question regarding IDE drives. I currently have 1 master and 1
slave IDE attached to the primary and secondary IDE slots. I would like to
add a 3rd IDE hard drive. Can I connect it to the blue RAID connector? Will
it appear in XP and function as simply a 3rd drive? Can I just plug it in
and go or will I have to mess with bios or RAID software? Thank you
I use my older P4P800 Deluxe MB with 2 hard drives on those ports. But you do
have to install a driver in windows for the port. It should be on the support
CD or at Asus website.
I have a total of 4 HD's and two optical drives in that P4P800 system.