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SATA on MSI KT6 Delta
Ok so it looks I didnt look into things enough. Awhile ago - if any of you saw it I fried my power supply and motherboard. So I went on the journey of discovery for a replacement.
I had 3 IDE drives and DVD cd rom cd/rewriter and an epox KHA8+ with an ATI 9700. I was running out of space so I thought let get rid of a disk and put a big 120gig disk in there and might as well be SATA to be up to date.
The problem is the MSI board I have needs two disks to recognise just one in windows. I thought that the connectors would allow either raid or just sata. But it seems not...
So I am not fussed with raid I just want to connect another disk (more than 4 devices). I could:
a) get rid of the drive and get an IDE one
b) get rid of the motherboard and get one that has proper SATA connectors
c) get a controller card to give me a port or two
d) get another drive (not first option as expensive)
Another question is will I be able to use say partition magic on raid disks? Is there a way to run the one disk I have from the board I have without it being raid.
I think that is enough to be going on with - any help as normal is greatly appreciated.
Mike
I had 3 IDE drives and DVD cd rom cd/rewriter and an epox KHA8+ with an ATI 9700. I was running out of space so I thought let get rid of a disk and put a big 120gig disk in there and might as well be SATA to be up to date.
The problem is the MSI board I have needs two disks to recognise just one in windows. I thought that the connectors would allow either raid or just sata. But it seems not...
So I am not fussed with raid I just want to connect another disk (more than 4 devices). I could:
a) get rid of the drive and get an IDE one
b) get rid of the motherboard and get one that has proper SATA connectors
c) get a controller card to give me a port or two
d) get another drive (not first option as expensive)
Another question is will I be able to use say partition magic on raid disks? Is there a way to run the one disk I have from the board I have without it being raid.
I think that is enough to be going on with - any help as normal is greatly appreciated.
Mike
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