IDE RAID and SATA ?

Can anyone help answer this - I have a single WD 36GB 10K SATA drive as
my OS drive. I added in two WD 7200 8MB Cache IDE drives. When I did
this the computer sits at the verifying DMI line in the bios - if I
remove the IDE drives it boots up (Possibly not enough juice from my PS
so I plan on swapping that out tonight)

The weird thing is if I turn on raid, and enable the channels for ide
only the sata drive is no longer seen, if I enable that channle for raid
it is still not seen unless I set it to spanning on the controller - but
then it will not boot. It must be able to distinguise between raid and
non raid as the ide CD roms still work fine - any thoughts?

David Wilts wrote:
 > Can anyone help answer this - I have a single WD 36GB 10K SATA drive as
 > my OS drive. I added in two WD 7200 8MB Cache IDE drives. When I did
 > this the computer sits at the verifying DMI line in the bios - if I
 > remove the IDE drives it boots up (Possibly not enough juice from my PS
 > so I plan on swapping that out tonight)
 >
 > The weird thing is if I turn on raid, and enable the channels for ide
 > only the sata drive is no longer seen, if I enable that channle for raid
 > it is still not seen unless I set it to spanning on the controller - but
 > then it will not boot. It must be able to distinguise between raid and
 > non raid as the ide CD roms still work fine - any thoughts?
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