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    tiny problems with P5DA2E (925XE) setup

    Hi !

    I have posted the enclosed message on the right2reply forum.
    However it appears that the forum I originally chose is not very active.
    I hope I can receive some valuable feedback here.

    Here is my post :

    Hi !

    I wonder if anybody could help me with two issues (so far) around
    the P5DA2E (925XE) mobo.

    I have assembled the custom system around this mobo.
    It works fine. I am just trying to tune it a bit.

    1. I have two optical drives.
    I connected one to the Primary IDE controller on the ICH6R.
    The other one I connected to the IDE RAID ITE8212 controller
    (I did not have a rounded IDE cable with the master / slave sockets).
    I am considering buying a different IDE cable to connect both drives
    to the ICH6R port (as master and slave).
    Would it make any difference to the system performance ?
    I could try to test it in practice but if the answer is simple (yes or no) then
    it would save me some time (and, possibly, the cost of the cable)

    2. ITE8212 again.
    During the BIOS POST the controller attempts to detect any devices
    connected to the two ITE8212's PATA ports.
    It does it quickly but ... then it "freezes" for about 10s or so.
    It is a bit annoying (I would love the system to boot up as quickly as possible).
    There is an option in BIOS that controls the detection time limit
    for ICH6R but I found no similar option for ITE8212.
    Has anybody come across the same "issue" ?
    Is there any way around it ? Or is something wrong with my system ?
    Possibly the BIOS update ?
    (I need to wait for my broadband connection before I am able to download any updates from the web - the system is not on any network either).

    Any suggestions will be appreciated.

    Thanks and Regards

    Robert
    Last edited by rmaciag; 01-02-2005 at 05:26 PM.

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    I think you do not understand the difference between an ATA channel and a RAID controller.

    You can't connect an optical drive up to a RAID controller and expect it to work as far as I'm aware!

    RAID is for two identical HDDs...nothing else.

    Just get some IDE cables which support a master and a slave drive, so you can connect up 4 PATA devices,
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    Actually the optical drive does work when connected to ITE8212.
    No issue here.
    re: confusion around RAID, the ITE8212 does support RAID arrays, connectors are PATA
    (I do not intend to utilise RAID capabilities of ITE8212 as I already have
    two RAID0 arrays : one made of two SATA Rators connected to ICH6R and
    one made of two SATA Seagate Barracuda's currently connected to the SiL controller).

    I just wondered if :
    - it would make any difference to the system performance if 2 optical drives
    are either both connected to one controller as a master / slave pair or each
    is connected to a different controller,
    - there is a way to speed up the device detection process of ITE8212
    (I will get a ITE master/slave cable anyway and I will move both drives to ICH6R to
    see what happens to the ITE8212 detection process- just an experiment)

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    • aidanjt's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus Strix Z370-G
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      • Intel i7-8700K
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    no and no.
    connect the optical drives to your motherboards primary onboard controller, and manually set the drive info in the BIOS drive setup to CDROM. then you wont need to wait as long.

    *edit* leave any discs out of the drive during boot up, disc spinup will 'lock' the drive before its ready to access data (most optical drives operate this way).. just a tip.

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