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04-12-2008, 06:01 PM
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| Add SATA opticals to P5B with Raid 1 setup? Hi Folks, I have a P5B Deluxe, running a SATA RAID 1 , my opticals are IDE. I want to clean up my case a bit, with a modular power supply, and some SATA opticals. I have several empty SATA connectors on the mobo to use, but will the system recognicze them as separate drives, and not part of the raid. The manual and BIOS setup screen are confusing, my SATA is configured as "RAID", and the JMicron controller is setup for "IDE", I am running XP. Can anyone who is using this board, or who is familar with it please help me out? I dont want to order SATA DVD burners that I cant use.  Thanks
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04-12-2008, 07:38 PM
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| Re: Add SATA opticals to P5B with Raid 1 setup? I believe if you've set up raid 0, it uses only 2 of the controllers, and the rest are open for jbod, but not totally sure. The manual should explain it better. |
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04-13-2008, 03:16 AM
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| Re: Add SATA opticals to P5B with Raid 1 setup? I never use RAID, although I have test-used it in a short period of time. I added a SATA DVD-RW drive to an IDE main boot hard disk. The SATA device is seen as separate drive. I also put a SATA hard disk later, and each SATA device is seen as a separate device; however, in BIOS it can be Master or Slave. I still don't understand when the SATA device is Master and when it is Slave. I guess it may be just fine and you probably have no problem.
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04-13-2008, 09:48 AM
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| Re: Add SATA opticals to P5B with Raid 1 setup? In the Intel Matrix Storage Utility, you choose the disks that you want to be part of the RAID array, the rest of the disks remain JBOD.
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04-13-2008, 10:27 AM
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| Re: Add SATA opticals to P5B with Raid 1 setup? There is a bug in both XP and Vista that causes (either some of the time or all of the time; I'm not sure which) SATA optical drives to disappear when AHCI is enabled. A hotfix is available for Vista, but not for XP: SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer I'm not familiar with the JMicron controller on your board. If that provides SATA connectors that can be set to non-RAID mode without AHCI (i.e., to ide emulation), then you would be ok connecting the optical drives there. Regards, -- Al
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04-13-2008, 06:55 PM
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Will there be a XP fix? Or is it typical M$ "We don't care about the customer after we have the money."  | |
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Regards, -- Al
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