I don't use RAID very often. However, I am putting together a older
PC for some specific jobs, and since I had two second generation 74GB
Raptors I used the onboard PROMISE controller to set them up RAID 0
with plans to install Windows 7 on it. The primary onboard control is
an Intel, but one port is damaged from a bad/loose connector so
I decided to disable the Intel controller in the BIOS.
To handle the three other hard drives I am using a PCI Promise SATA
150 RAID 4 port controller with three SATA drives plugged into it. I
have used this controller before and previously set it up as SATA not
STRIPED. I have never used it as a RAID controller.
The problem is that when I set the PC's BIOS for the onboard PROMISE
to RAID instead of SATA, the PCI 150 also went to STRIPED, and now
it shows all five of the drives, even the ones on the onboard
controller. It seems as if it won't let me use the board PROMISE
controller as RAID but the PCI as SATA the PCI controller has
grouped them all together but I don't know enough about this to
be sure. Can I do this or will the controllers not allow this. Thanks.
