Two non raided drives on Raid controller ?

[Ozymandias]

I've a SATA drive on a SATA raid controller and an ATA drive on an Asus P4G8X. I'm thinking of replacing the ATA drive with a SATA to ride myself of that fat ribbon cable.

Is it possible to have the two SATA drives on the SATA raid controller but not be raided i.e. acting as two distinct drives ?

Sorry if the answer is obvious but this is my first dabble into Raid controllers and the short text that passes for a manual is not exactly clear

[Aaron]

Well you can do it with P-ATA so S-ATA shouldn't be a problem really.

[malfunction]

*Probably*

I've seen an old (server spec) RAID card where you had to define a single drive as a RAID 0 array to access it on it's own. But if you're talking onboard RAID then it will probably act as a pass through. What chipset is it?

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by malfunction
*Probably*

I've seen an old (server spec) RAID card where you had to define a single drive as a RAID 0 array to access it on it's own. But if you're talking onboard RAID then it will probably act as a pass through. What chipset is it?

Its a Silicon Image SiI3012A Raid onboard SATA raid controller.

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by Aaron
Well you can do it with P-ATA so S-ATA shouldn't be a problem really.

But the SATA is on the raid controller and the PATA isn't ...

[malfunction]

Actually just re-read your first post. If the SATA controller is already using a single SATA drive OK then I can't see why it wouldn't let you use 2 drives as single drives and not an array...

Could be wrong though! Silicon Image's website isn't saying much about it (BTW I'm assuming you mean the 3112A - can't find any mention of the 3012A)

[malfunction]

Originally posted by malfunction
BTW I'm assuming you mean the 3112A - can't find any mention of the 3012A)

Just found the docs for the 3012... Which is only a PHY so it will depend on what your actual chipset (southbridge) can do.

[SilentDeath]

u can definatly use 2 sata drives on the 3112a without raiding them. before u try u might want to check to see if anyone has had corruptiopn with ur mobo, there were problems with nf7-s with the same sata controler when used with two drives, which are fixed now in bios and driver updates, i think

[Stoo]

Well, seeing as you have to define and setup a RAID set, doesn't it stand to reason that if you don't it'll just run the 2 drives normally..

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by malfunction
Just found the docs for the 3012... Which is only a PHY so it will depend on what your actual chipset (southbridge) can do.

It's a 3112 - I've just had a look in hardware manager and the manual (when all else fails etc.)