P4C800-E Dlx and one SATA drive?

[Steve Hoffmann]

Someone please have mercy on an old geezer. This is the 4th system I've
built for myself and the first with any sort of onboard RAID. I am going to
run Win XP. I have two IDE drives, a CDROM and DVD to run on the regular IDE
channels. I have one SATA drive that I just want to run as a single drive.
I've looked through the manual and the online docs and can't find any
mention of running just one drive on the SATA controller. Will this work? do
I just plug in the drive with data cable and a power cable and load the SATA
drivers? I noticed that there is no master/slave jumper on the SATA drive.
Can someone jump start me...THANKS!

 

[Jmorandeau]

Hello,
Sure it works. This is what I exactly have. There is no master/slave for
SATA. and for your two IDE you put as usual master and slave. I put the SATA
as start disk, with Win XP. You have to declare the priority within the
bios. In my case, I don't use raid.
jm

 

[Andre]

Hi Steve,

Don't worry.
I have got the same system here with a single Maxtor 200 Gb SATA HDand no
problem at all.

Just connect the cable to the non-raid connector on the mobo and to the HD.
The HD is powered by using the classic "molex" 4 pins connector from an "Y"
cable.

No need to install any driver to start the system.
But I intalled anyway the SATA drivers (no RAID driver).

You must also set correctly the parameters in the BIOS and disable the RAID
options.
At the first boot, the system will scan the BUS to search for HD's.
In the future, the system will start normally.

I use it since about 3 months and no problem.

Hope that I can help you.

Sincerely,

Andre

 

[Steve Hoffmann]

Thanks to all for the detailed replies!!!!

Hi Steve,

Don't worry.
I have got the same system here with a single Maxtor 200 Gb SATA HDand no
problem at all.

Just connect the cable to the non-raid connector on the mobo and to the HD.
The HD is powered by using the classic "molex" 4 pins connector from an "Y"
cable.

No need to install any driver to start the system.
But I intalled anyway the SATA drivers (no RAID driver).

You must also set correctly the parameters in the BIOS and disable the RAID
options.
At the first boot, the system will scan the BUS to search for HD's.
In the future, the system will start normally.

I use it since about 3 months and no problem.

Hope that I can help you.

Sincerely,

Andre



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