Help: New Drives

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I put together a new computer for myself and got two SATA Maxtor Hard
drives.
The board is a Asus A8V Deluxe.

Problem: I don't want to use the Raid, only if I have it as JOHD, which I
pluged them both into the Main Board, not the raid inputs because if I do
that, it looks for the Master EIDE connection drive, which Maxtor don't
have, only the Serial ata cable in and out.
I start up and I have both Drives, but as Drive C only, and the size is
the size of the combined drives (120 gig + 120 gig =240 gig), I want them to
com up as separet drives, what am I doing wrong, please ?

Problem 2: I have Both the CD and DVD on the EIDE cable's, and they are
fine.
BUT, If I side a ULTRA 133 into my Mobile rack, it tries to boot from it
instead of the SATA.
(I use a Mobile rack mostly for backing up to with Ghost).
Hope I got enough info for you people, as I'm a older person and it will be
my last one I assemble for myself.
OH, winXP SP2, AMD 3500 64 bit.
TIA, but I'll be back for the thank you.

 

[Jerry]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Don't know about your Asus board by my ABIT IC7-MAX3 has connections for 6
SATA devices, 2 EIDE channels (4 devices), and floppies.

In the BIOS I can switch the SATA between RAID or IDE and I can select the
boot device from the BIOS also.

Have you read and re-read the motherboard manual to verify various setup
settings? Have you gone to the Asus web site to read any FAQs and see if
they have a forum? (A forum willbe similar to these newsgroups.)

Jerry

"JosephRH" <JosephRH@mailpuppy.com> wrote in message
news:yYSdnQv-5-bNqk3cRVn-oA@giganews.com...
> I put together a new computer for myself and got two SATA Maxtor Hard
> drives.
> The board is a Asus A8V Deluxe.
>
> Problem: I don't want to use the Raid, only if I have it as JOHD, which I
> pluged them both into the Main Board, not the raid inputs because if I do
> that, it looks for the Master EIDE connection drive, which Maxtor don't
> have, only the Serial ata cable in and out.
> I start up and I have both Drives, but as Drive C only, and the size is
> the size of the combined drives (120 gig + 120 gig =240 gig), I want them
> to com up as separet drives, what am I doing wrong, please ?
>
> Problem 2: I have Both the CD and DVD on the EIDE cable's, and they are
> fine.
> BUT, If I side a ULTRA 133 into my Mobile rack, it tries to boot from it
> instead of the SATA.
> (I use a Mobile rack mostly for backing up to with Ghost).
> Hope I got enough info for you people, as I'm a older person and it will
> be my last one I assemble for myself.
> OH, winXP SP2, AMD 3500 64 bit.
> TIA, but I'll be back for the thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
>

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

I'm Reading and Working Too hard.
All I really want to do is run two SATA as 150's, but not as a raid setup,
just two fast drives.

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
news:%23yV7tTG7EHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Don't know about your Asus board by my ABIT IC7-MAX3 has connections for 6
> SATA devices, 2 EIDE channels (4 devices), and floppies.
>
> In the BIOS I can switch the SATA between RAID or IDE and I can select the
> boot device from the BIOS also.
>
> Have you read and re-read the motherboard manual to verify various setup
> settings? Have you gone to the Asus web site to read any FAQs and see if
> they have a forum? (A forum willbe similar to these newsgroups.)
>
> Jerry
>
> "JosephRH" <JosephRH@mailpuppy.com> wrote in message
> news:yYSdnQv-5-bNqk3cRVn-oA@giganews.com...
>> I put together a new computer for myself and got two SATA Maxtor Hard
>> drives.
>> The board is a Asus A8V Deluxe.
>>
>> Problem: I don't want to use the Raid, only if I have it as JOHD, which I
>> pluged them both into the Main Board, not the raid inputs because if I do
>> that, it looks for the Master EIDE connection drive, which Maxtor don't
>> have, only the Serial ata cable in and out.
>> I start up and I have both Drives, but as Drive C only, and the size
>> is the size of the combined drives (120 gig + 120 gig =240 gig), I want
>> them to com up as separet drives, what am I doing wrong, please ?
>>
>> Problem 2: I have Both the CD and DVD on the EIDE cable's, and they are
>> fine.
>> BUT, If I side a ULTRA 133 into my Mobile rack, it tries to boot from it
>> instead of the SATA.
>> (I use a Mobile rack mostly for backing up to with Ghost).
>> Hope I got enough info for you people, as I'm a older person and it will
>> be my last one I assemble for myself.
>> OH, winXP SP2, AMD 3500 64 bit.
>> TIA, but I'll be back for the thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>