s-ata to eide controller

[Ivan]

I would like to connect a serial-ata hdd to an eide controller and make it a
primary/boot disk. This is because my motherboard has only s-ata raid
controller onboard.

I've run across a controller which enables you to connect eide hdds to s-ata
controller. Is it possible to do the other way around with it. If not, what
is the solution to this?

 

[Tod]

Most Raid controllers will run a single hard drive in non raid fashion.
Which motherboard do you have ?

 

[Ivan]

Abit NF7-SL.

It does not recognize just one hdd, let alone boot Windows from it.

 

[Ivan]

I stand corrected - my motherboard recognizes the s-ata hdd (though only if
I enable s-ata controller and disable s-ata RAID i guess).

The case in point is that Norton Ghost 2003 does not recognize s-ata hdd in
DOS i.e. when bacing-up/restoring partitions.

Any remedy to this?

 

[Tod]

I myself have never used Norton Ghost.

I stand corrected - my motherboard recognizes the s-ata hdd (though only if
I enable s-ata controller and disable s-ata RAID i guess).

The case in point is that Norton Ghost 2003 does not recognize s-ata hdd in
DOS i.e. when bacing-up/restoring partitions.

Any remedy to this?

 

[Ivan]

Finally, I succeded in getting the WD Raptor to work via s-ata controller.
The trick was to enable also the RAID ROM (and not only s-ata controller).
Norton Ghost restored the partition from eide Maxtor to the Raptor without a
problem.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I would like to connect a serial-ata hdd to an eide controller and make it a
primary/boot disk. This is because my motherboard has only s-ata raid
controller onboard.

I've run across a controller which enables you to connect eide hdds to s-ata
controller. Is it possible to do the other way around with it. If not, what
is the solution to this?

Such controllers are supposedly possible, but there is no market for
them yet. There might be in the future.

Arno