Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra 2 Questions

[Dongle_Dave]

I just got one of these little beauties and have a few questions:

1.) Do IDE3 and IDE4 support more than one device on each channel like IDE1/IDE2 do?

2.) If I have a stripped set using IDE3/4, can I also set up a RAID using the SATA ports as well?

3.) Is there any way to take full advantage of my Corsair DDR400 memory? I can only get it to go to DDR333 (officially supported).

Thanks!

Dave

 

[alltaken]

i have one too and i love it!!

1) yes they do take two hence the green IDE cables having two plugs for the HDD

2)i don't know (do you have SATA HDD)

3)no but i believe overclocking rules apply if you overclock the motherboard cpu and all the memory will approch the 400 speed more.

that is all i know (i ain't a power user or anything but i do love all the features the board has on it)

 

[Dongle_Dave]

Wow! So you're saying that IDE3/4 each support two devices and that I could have a raid set up on both? COOL! I do not have SATA drives yet, like everyone 🙁

Thanks!

Dave

 

[alltaken]

well ok i haven't set up a raid myself but i think they can have two drives per channel.

you will notice that on boot up the screen show 4 channels when trying to detect devices for the raid configuration.

i personally just use the extra channels for more storage!!!
e.g ATA 100 no raid.

i also plan on getting some SATA drives some day. (i havn't tried any of the things i sugested to you but from obsevation i think its possible)

hope it works and once you have given it a go you could tell me what you set up and what really works!!!

😛

 

[Steve_in_VA]

I have the Ultra board, so I'm extrapolating to the Ultra 2. You can set up IDE 3/4 as either ATA 100 or RAID. If ATA 100, you can have two IDE devices per channel in the usual master/slave setup. If RAID, only one HD per channel, usually set up as cable select. So you can have 4 IDE devices, including CD, zip, etc., but only one RAID array.

 

[elzt]

Yes, that's right, but shouldn't it be ATA133 instead of ATA100?

 

[Steve_in_VA]

I stand corrected, ATA133 is right.

 

[alltaken]

he he he i may have confused you by saying

"e.g. ata 100 no raid"

that is because i only have an ata100 HDD

he he he

but what i want to know is why the raid channels can go up to ata 133 and the main channels can only do 100 (thats what the specs say)

why is that????

 

[elzt]

It's because GA-8PE667 Ultra 2 is based on the Intel 845PE chipset which can only go up to ATA/100 on the main channels (IDE1/2)

On the other hand, the raid channels (IDE3/4) are powered by Promise 20276 RAID controller chip which can do ATA/133.

Keep in mind that Intel never supports the idea of ATA/133.

 

[alltaken]

hey thanks now i get it!!!