Can I boot off a RAID card with only 1 hard drive plugged into it?

[RonPaul2k12]

Can I use a RAID card just for extra internal SATA ports?

If so, how can I boot 1 hard drive by itself off of one. The motherboard's SATA ports went bad which is why I am using the PCI RAID card.

 

[saiyan]

Yes. It says RAID in the name of the boot device but I definitely made it first priority.

So you have set "RAID" as the first boot device in the main motherboard's BIOS.

Are you certain the motherboard knows that this "RAID" device is the add-on RAID controller and not a on-board RAID device?
Is there any device such as "SCSI add-on controller" that you can set as the boot device?

In most motherboards I have used, I would need to select a "SCSI controller" as the boot device in order to boot from a add-on RAID controller.

 

[RonPaul2k12]

I will double check and let you know.