P4C800: Raid 0 with PATA IDE Drives

[Roger Zoul]

I have two 80 GB PATA IDE drives that I wish to use in a Raid 0
configuration. As I understand this mobo, I have two options.

1) Configure one as master, the other as slave, and connect to the PATA IDE
Raid connector.

It seems silly to put one drive on the same channel as slave. Won't that
kill performance? Don't most Raid 0 configs run on independent channels?

2) Get a PATA-to-SATA connector for each, and run them off the two SATA
ports.

If they are independent channels, this would work fine in a Raid 0
configuation, right? Since these are typically PATA drives, I can use the
typical power connector, right?

Would a third option be to put one drive on teh PATA port and the other on
the SATA port?

Am I missing anything? Please straighten me out where I'm off. Thanks.

 

[JxD]

I'm using the second option. Tried the first option and it was shocking.
Was going to go for the 3rd option.

got 2 WD 120G 8mb buffer HD connected with the Iwill SATA adaptor to SATA
raid channels

With recent Bios update (1008) and the new driver (1.0.1.30), I'm getting
around 57,000 benchmark with sandra. Pretty happy with it.

JxD

 

[Roger Zoul]

Okay, that's exactly the info I'm looking for. Thanks. So are you using the
file 387ata100130.zip from the asus site? I can't get a good download of
the file378raid100130.zip from that site....keep coming up corrupt. Same
for 044_3c940.zip and 1985wdm_3630.zip. There are all corrupt!

 

[JD]

try the german site

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/TREIBER/CONTROLLER/IDE/PROMISE/PDC2037x/
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/TREIBER/CONTROLLER/IDE/PROMISE/PDC2037x/P37x_R150_B30.ZIP

same as the 3com driver and sound driver

JxD