Questions Setting up old 7NJS Raid

I have been to Chaintech support and all they did was confuse me. I
would like to set two serial hard drives up in Raid 0 and need to
know their configuration.

First of all can they both be connected to the same IDE cable? Can
they also be connected to IDE 3?Do they both set up as master?

If that is OK then I also would like to set 3 optical drives up one of
them can be designated as master. Hey if I can set up 4 I'll do that.

Thank's in advance. drker

my msi delta which i have mirrored and my 7njs which has just one drive, both use the same promise raid controller. going by the book from msi, here's what you do.

forget about the ide-3.

my western digital sata drives came pre jumpered. i don't know what brand you have. connect them with sata cables and boot to bios and make sure they are enabled(raid) and set boot order to scsi, save and exit.

at the second boot screen for raid setup, hit ctl + f to enter the raid bios. item 1. auto setup, should default to preformance/raid 0 and build.

reboot and have a boot disk so you can fdisk and format(or use the windows install to do that part) partition(s).

http://www.bootdisk.com/


from there you install windows. when instructed to f6 for raid drivers, have a floppy with the promise drivers on it. do not put them in a folder because windows won't see them.

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/Download/dl_LI.asp?DISNo=297

and you can use up to 4 opticals on the ide1 & ide2. and again forget about the ide-3 because it no longer functions with the to sata drives connected.

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