SCSI Raid & IDE Raid together?

[segil]

Hello,

is it possible to use SCSI Raid and IDE Raid together in one computer? I've got a workstation with a Adaptec 29320-R and two SCSI 36 GB harddisks installed. The card is configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) and everything works fine.
Now I want to add two 250 GB IDE drives for backup purposes and I would like to use mirroring for these drives as well. The OS is Windows server 2003, so I can decide to use a software mirror, but I have the feeling that a hardware mirror is better and faster. So I want to add a Promise FastTrak TX2000 card (IDE Raid) and configure it as RAID-1.
The support department of Fasttrak says that it's not possible to install a IDE raid card into a system that has already a SCSI card installed. Is this true? Does anybody have experience with installing a IDE Raid and SCSI Raid in the same system?

Thanks for your help.

 

[rclarke250]

I haven't tried it,but I don't see why it wouldn't work. They both have there own bios and are independent from each other. I mean you can have an ide controller,scsi controller on board,and an add in scsi adapter,and an add in scsi raid card,this I have done and it works well,on servers.

 

[ibmtech65]

I have seen servers with both IDE and SCSI drives and the only problem they had was that the system wanted to boot from the IDE devices. That can be fixed by changing the boot order from hardrisk0 to harddisk1.

 

[segil]

Thanks you guys for the anwser!

I'll try installing the two cards together and see if it works!

If only you could also install a IDE raid controller in a Proliant ML350, that would be great!