Non-Raid on Raid Board

Bob B · Mar 21, 2005

Can a single SATA drive be used on a raid motherboard in non-Raid mode?

Arno Wagner · Mar 21, 2005

Previously Bob B said:
Can a single SATA drive be used on a raid motherboard in non-Raid mode?

Depends. Usually it works. What controller?

Arno

Folkert Rienstra · Mar 21, 2005

Bob B said:
Can a single SATA drive be used on a raid motherboard in non-Raid mode?

Does it say anywhere that it can't?

Rod Speed · Mar 22, 2005

Does it say anywhere that it can't?

They dont all say that clearly.

Curious George · Mar 23, 2005

They dont all say that clearly.

Could you give us an example of a board which does not support a
single drive. That seems like very odd behaviour to me.

Rod Speed · Mar 23, 2005

Could you give us an example of a board which does not support a single drive.

That was never very clear from the documentation, whether it did or not.

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