KT7A-RAID: non RAID disk on RAID port

Hello,

Is it possible to use the RAID ports as normal IDE port ??
I have no more available IDE ports...

Thanks.

 

Yes.

I believe you might have to install
a non-raid driver though. Others here should know for sure,

 

Yes, you can use them as extra IDE ports, it's what I've been doing and it
works fine under Win98 and WinXP (and others, I assume) as long as the
HighPoint driver has been installed.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Yes, you can use them as extra IDE ports, it's what I've been doing and it

Thanks for the info.
An so, what is the process ? They don't talk about that in the doc of the
motherboard.

 

What process do you mean??

Mike

 

If you have installed the Drivers, simply plug the disk in and go.

 

You can run 4 hard drives on IDE 3 and 4 without having a Raid Array of any
kind. The raid IDE ports are suppose to only support hard drives but I
wouldn't be surprised if someone has found a way to connect something else.
I use IDE 3 to support a single HD and boot from that drive. The highpoint
drivers need to be installed and you have to tell the BIOS to boot from the
Highpoint device "(I can't remember the term in the BIOS right now but you
will recognize it when you see it)