120gb and 74gb RAID Stripping..Possible?

[Romain]

I've got a 120gb Samsung Spinpoint Ultra-ATA HDD, and a 74gb Raptor SATA. Along with the DFI Lan-Party Expert mobo, im trying to setup RAID. I want to be able to go back and forth between the two, copying and sharing data.

I enabled RAID setup in BIOS and have the Sil3114 SataRAID utility driver installed. Do i need a Ultra ATA driver?
I enabled Primary Master IDE 1 and Primary Master SATA 1 for RAID

When i entered the RAID utility to set them up, it recognizes both. I set it to Stripping and put both disks under array. Choose not to delete data

Which do i boot from? Whenever i start up now, i get a DISK READ ERROR or DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER, or my HDD light stays on and my comp freezes. It only happens when this 120gb HDD is hooked up.


I need to know how to set this up. And if i hook up the 120gb AFTER the computer is already running, how can i access it?

[LuckyNV]

what is it you are trying to do???

RAID on that mobo needs at least 2 drives, using different speeds and different size isn't recommended...

RAID 0 you will be limited to the speed of the slowest drive and total space will be 2x74GB, the extra 46GB won't be used at all.
RAID 1 well... that is mirroring, you will only have 74GB for use in total.

just use the Raptor for games and the OS, the IDE for backups, storage and programs.

[Drag]

You can't raid with 2 different drives *EDITed by IFMU* even i know that gsus

*EDITed by IFMU*
Nice... how many times have you been warned for this kinda thing?

Hope you enjoy your vacation.

IFMU

[Romain]

You can't raid with 2 different drives dumbass even i know that gsus

*puts gun to head* Me so sorry :rolleyes:

[uOpt]

Uh, sure you can.

You can set up a partition of 74 GB on the bigger drive, then make a RAID out of that partition and the second drive. Then use the remaining 50 GB plain.

Speed will be good, too, the average of the drives, not the speed of the slower drive (in raid-0).

Whether you can do that with that onboard SATA junk or not is a different question.