ADVICE PLEASE: Connect 2 x Writers.1 x Reader. 3 x H/Drives - Club CDFreaks

c22shooter · 29-09-2005

Its time to install my 3 optical drives and the 3 extra hard drives into my system. Any help or advice on how to split the drives, master settings or Slave for each drive. Also any thoughts on optical to Motherboard and hard drives to additional card, or mix them up etc, and best card to use. From experiance i wont be using the promise 133, could never get one to run on my older Asus board. System Specs as my signature. My thanks in advance.

*zebadee* · 29-09-2005

Hi

For CD/DVD etc this card .
At that site any of the other cards giving raid options for hd's.
If you get the CD/DVD card. Install card after getting drivers from here In the handbook it tells you that Windows XP will have drivers, it doesn't. The CD included implies that it has the drivers, they're not the right ones.
As you may have gathered I have/use this card for DVDRW's, it's excellent with no problems.
Whatever card you get for optical drives, it's best to aviod cards with raid abilities.

TimC · 29-09-2005

My Gigabyte MB has 2 normal IDE channels & 2 raid IDE channels. I have my 4 opticals on the standard channels & 2 HDDs on the raid channels & boot from "SCSI". Works fine.

In your case any PCI IDE card will probably be fine for adding your 3 extra HDDs, although the card from Maplins as Z has suggested is probably fine as he's using it susccessfully. I got one from ebuyer which was cheaper but a raid card with an Silicon Image chipset which I updated the bios to non-raid without any problem. Mixed results with opticals though.

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c22shooter CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: south east england Posts: 46	ADVICE PLEASE: Connect 2 x Writers.1 x Reader. 3 x H/Drives Its time to install my 3 optical drives and the 3 extra hard drives into my system. Any help or advice on how to split the drives, master settings or Slave for each drive. Also any thoughts on optical to Motherboard and hard drives to additional card, or mix them up etc, and best card to use. From experiance i wont be using the promise 133, could never get one to run on my older Asus board. System Specs as my signature. My thanks in advance. __________________ System Specs Chieftec BX O2b case--Antec Tru Power 550 Watt PSU--Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard--AMD Athlon FX-55 CPU--Zalman CNPS7700 CPU Cooler--2GB Corsair Pro XMS3200 cas3 DDR SDRAM--Benq DW-1640(F/W BSLB)--Plextor Premium CD-RW (F/W1.06)--Toshiba 1712 DVD Rom Reader--Mitsubishi DP920 19” CRT Monitor 1152x864@100hz. Great for games and colour on graphical work--Power Cooler XT800xt Pro 256mb Graphics Card--250gb Hitachi 7K250 SATA 7200rpm. Running of Motherboard--160gb Maxtor.--120gb x 2 8mb Western Digital--Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS 7.1 PCI Card Windows XP Home SP2 all patches. My Photos http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/c22shooter@btopenworld.com/album?.dir=/e6a6 Last edited by c22shooter; 29-09-2005 at 18:24. Reason: typose

29-09-2005	#2 (permalink)
zebadee CD Freaks Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,087	Re: ADVICE PLEASE: Connect 2 x Writers.1 x Reader. 3 x H/Drives Hi For CD/DVD etc this card . At that site any of the other cards giving raid options for hd's. If you get the CD/DVD card. Install card after getting drivers from here In the handbook it tells you that Windows XP will have drivers, it doesn't. The CD included implies that it has the drivers, they're not the right ones. As you may have gathered I have/use this card for DVDRW's, it's excellent with no problems. Whatever card you get for optical drives, it's best to aviod cards with raid abilities.

29-09-2005	#3 (permalink)
TimC CD Freaks Guru Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Posts: 7,499	Re: ADVICE PLEASE: Connect 2 x Writers.1 x Reader. 3 x H/Drives My Gigabyte MB has 2 normal IDE channels & 2 raid IDE channels. I have my 4 opticals on the standard channels & 2 HDDs on the raid channels & boot from "SCSI". Works fine. In your case any PCI IDE card will probably be fine for adding your 3 extra HDDs, although the card from Maplins as Z has suggested is probably fine as he's using it susccessfully. I got one from ebuyer which was cheaper but a raid card with an Silicon Image chipset which I updated the bios to non-raid without any problem. Mixed results with opticals though.

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