Hello! Im running a win2k system on an Iwill KA266-R mobo with two standard IDE Hard Drives, one internal zip drive and one internal CDR drive. The system works very well. Today I picked up a new 7200 RPM Maxtor hard drive and was considering running it as a third hard drive off of the RAID port on the mobo. I installed it, and the bootup process seems to have seen the drive. I have it as a master drive..the RAID config utility sees it as such and I left it as a stripe drive. The drive isnt formatted. The problem occurs when the boot process gets to the win 2K splash screen. At this point the entire system locks up. Is it possible to run a RAID drive as well as the standard IDE drives at the same time, or will I need all hard drives connected as RAIDs? Thank you!
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IWILL KA266R RAID MOBO QUESTION!!! RAID & IDE?
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You should be able to run it just like any other drive. In your email you state "I left it striped"?? If you only have 1 drive on that channel it wouldn't be striped. Check you modo manual and bios settings i.e. the boot order for you drives
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I know it should be able to run like any other drive. I have it set in the RAID config utility as RAID level 0, which provides disk striping. any other RAID config on my mobo requires 2 or more drives. Im not booting from the drive, so I dont have it in the boot sequence.
Can anyone help?
Can anyone help?
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