8k3a+ - ide drives setup

[1011011]

hi there, im looking for some advice...!

i have my primary Raid array on ch1 set as my boot drive and want to use one of my IDE channels to host a spare drive i have so i can backup some work.

Every time i put the drive on the IDE channel (as a master) the board trys to boot from the IDE ch and not the RAID - i have disabled all boots in the IDE bios - then the machine hangs on post and wont boot into anything until i physically remove the drive on the IDE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[MercutioUK]

Originally Posted by 1011011

hi there, im looking for some advice...!

i have my primary Raid array on ch1 set as my boot drive and want to use one of my IDE channels to host a spare drive i have so i can backup some work.

Every time i put the drive on the IDE channel (as a master) the board trys to boot from the IDE ch and not the RAID - i have disabled all boots in the IDE bios - then the machine hangs on post and wont boot into anything until i physically remove the drive on the IDE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

As a suggestion, from memory (at work and not near my machine) the raid is actually setup as "IDE-1" in the boot preference... try that

[1011011]

sorry, didnt explain properly - heres the current setup:
IDE2= lg cdrw (slave) pioneer dvdrw (master)
IDE1=empty
IDE3= 2* 120gb maxtors Raid 0
IDE4=empty

I want to put the spare drive on IDE 1, the non raid ide!

[MercutioUK]

Originally Posted by 1011011

sorry, didnt explain properly - heres the current setup:
IDE2= lg cdrw (slave) pioneer dvdrw (master)
IDE1=empty
IDE3= 2* 120gb maxtors Raid 0
IDE4=empty

I want to put the spare drive on IDE 1, the non raid ide!

You want to have all your normal ide filled and still have it boot off the raid?
if so set it to boot off hdd-1 in the bios i belive. If its not that im 99% sure it isnt set to boot off scsi

[1011011]

Originally Posted by MercutioUK

You want to have all your normal ide filled and still have it boot off the raid?

basically - yeah!!!

have put the spare drive on the free raid ide at the moment, but i will try that later - thanks dude