P4P800 UDMA133

[CSX]

Hi
Please answer this question as I want to buy this board but need to know the
following first. Cant get the answer any where. Help

I have a single UDMA 133 harddisk. Will it work in this board as the
primary at 133 speed. If yes How is it connected and set up.
Thanks

 

[John]

Hi
Please answer this question as I want to buy this board but need to know the
following first. Cant get the answer any where. Help

I have a single UDMA 133 harddisk. Will it work in this board as the
primary at 133 speed. If yes How is it connected and set up.
Thanks

The P4P800 will only do ATA 100 on this board unless you hook it up as a
RAID drive with another idential dirve to the VIA RAID controller which
is ATA 133. Not what you wanted to hear but accurate.

 

[William Cheng @HSE]

Yes you can. The on-board Intel ICH5R will only handle UDMA5 which is
ATA-100, but if you use the additional built-in VIA RAID controller, this
supports UDMA6 which is ATA-133. You can use this as an additional 2
channels of EIDE by default - it is not necessarily RAID unless you set it
up in the VIA bios as RAID (which is a different setup than the AMI bios
which sets up the drives as primary, secondary which are IDE, third and
fourth which are SATA). The only catch is that this VIA controller will not
support ATAPI devices such as CD-ROMs. I upgraded to a P4P800-D sucessfully
without a hitch and I have an older Quantum 6.4Gb drive as the primary on
the VIA controller working fine (although not at ATA-133 since my old drive
does not support that)


Good luck,
William
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[William Cheng @HSE]

Yup, by default, it just acts as another 2 channel (primary & secondary)
EIDE adapter - except no CD-ROM. It has the option to be set as a RAID
setup - but by default (straight out of the box) its just another EIDE
adapter. Curiously though, in WinXP, the drives on it will be displayed as
SCSI devices in the device manager - but I am told that this is the case
with any and all add-on EIDE channels/adapters in WinXP.

 

[GMAN]

So it works with the one drive or i gotta go and buy another to set up a
raid
CSX

One drive

 

[John]

Not true, it will run perfectly fine on the VIA raid controller as just a
stand alone drive. In fact the VIA controller by default just functions as a
ATA133 controller till you specifically configure drives as raid. I have
qty(4) ATA133 80 gig drives on the VIA as individual drives and i have 2 80
gigers on the Primary onboard ATA100 controller and a DVD rom and CDRW on the
Secondary onboard IDE

Cool. I stand corrected.

 

[CSX]

Will a single drive on the VIA RAID boot the PC ?
Ta

 

[Friedrich Bloeser]

Sure. My HDD is connected to the primary raid connector.
Primary and secondary onboard IDE are used for DVD,
CD-RW and Zip drive.

-fritz

: Will a single drive on the VIA RAID boot the PC ?
: Ta