HELP : Connecting Hard Drives (non RAID)

[Steve]

Hi there, can someone help please ?

The System
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I have an Asus P5DDC-V Deluxe motherboard for a Pentium 4 Socket 755.

I am going to use a 120GB Western Digital EIDE (ATA100) as the
Master (C Drive ) and a Western Digital EIDE 80GB as the Slave (D
Drive).
The D drive is the only component I am moving from my old computer and
does have information on it.
The Master is brand new and I will copy the information from my old
computer's Master (a WD 60GB) onto this new one with the great WD
program to do this. I will then do an upgrade by Installing Window XP
Pro (the old system used ME) beofre proceeding.

The Problem !
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It is over 6 years since I built a computer and now boards seem to
have this "RAID" thing, which to be honest, I am not bothered about
and I doubt if the 2 hard drives I have support this.
On my Motherboard there are 3 connections :-

Primary IDE Connector
This says its for Ultra DMA 100/66 signal cable.

Then TWO Ultra ATA 133/100/66 RAID Connectors marked up as Primary
RAID and Secondary RAID

On my old syestem I just had a Primary and Secondary ATA connector.
On the Primary I had the Hard Drives (Master/Slave)
On the Secondary I had a CD-RW and a DVD-RW (once again as
Master/Slave.)

What I would like to know is how do I connect these FOUR devices (2
Hard drives and DVD-RW & CD-RW) on the new system ?

Do I still put the hard drives on the Primary or do I connect the RW's
on there ?
Where do I connect the other 2 drives too on the RAID connects ?
Primary I assume ?
Help please, I am SO confused !

Steve

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Read the manual??

(What's that motherboard, I couldn't find it)
If it is the P5GDC-V, theb on page 2-30 it says about PRI_RAID1 [red],
SEC_RAID1 [red]
"These connectors are for Ultra ATA 133/100/66 signal cables. These
connectors support up to four IDE hard drives that can be configured as a
disk array through the onboard IDE RAID controller.

These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can
connect IDE devices to these connectors such as boot/data hard drives or
optical drives. If you intend to crate an IDE RAID set using these
connectors, see the ITE8212F controller item.....


If so, I'd connect the opticals to the PRI_IDE connector and the HDs to the
PRI_RAID1



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[RBM]

In the bios, set the 133 controller as non raid and in the boot order, make
sure the hard drive you're using for the operating system is the only one
listed