P4P 800 Deluxe - which Controller Chipset to use for SATA??/

[cvj]

The Asus P4P 800 Deluse comes with 2 controller chipset - the Promise
PDC20378 and the Intel ICH5R. It looks like the both allow you to install 2
SATA drives in a Raid 0 configuration

I am totally confused - which chipset should I use for best results (or am I
totally missing something?)

Also - the installation guide mentions a RAID 0+1 setting - which sounds
like the best of 2 worlds - but I can't find any reference to how to go
about setting that particular configaration up.

Help anyone???

Thanks
Claus

 

[Ken Fox]

The Asus P4P 800 Deluse comes with 2 controller chipset - the Promise
PDC20378 and the Intel ICH5R. It looks like the both allow you to install 2
SATA drives in a Raid 0 configuration

I am totally confused - which chipset should I use for best results (or am I
totally missing something?)

Also - the installation guide mentions a RAID 0+1 setting - which sounds
like the best of 2 worlds - but I can't find any reference to how to go
about setting that particular configaration up.

Help anyone???

Thanks
Claus

Hopefully I'm not dishing out misinformation.

The chipsets that would interact with the two "main," non-RAID, IDE channels
are Intel, not Promise, based. I don't believe this board even has a
Promise chip, at least not one that controls any of the hard drives.

There is a Via chipset that controls the two RAID IDE channels, each of
which can have two IDE Hard Drives attached via standard IDE cables, and
which can be configured as RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1, or for that matter
as JBOD, or "Just a bunch of disks," which would be extra hard disks
installed with drive letters but without being in a standard type RAID
array.

If I am correct, the SATA native to this mobo runs off the Intel chip(s),
and is limited in function as a RAID array; other posts have addressed this
recently so scan up through the posts and you will find pertinent threads.

Setting up a RAID 0+1 array is pretty easy and done through the bios for the
VIA chip, after you manually populate the 4 disks in the box and hook them
up, two each to each IDE cable off the RAID IDE connectors. You will need
4 disks, optimally all the same type and size.

Good luck.

ken