Quote Originally Posted by mikepaul View Post
I bought two SATA trays so I could have removable drives for easy backup of 500GB drives mounted insode my case.

I attached one to a RAID card I got at Best Buy. I crossed my fingers that one drive would work when that card was set to BIG and it does: that single drive came up ready to format.

However, I connected the second bay to EZ_RAID1 and set the RAID jumper to BIG but I get no response from that drive. I see setup instructions in the manual but they make no mention of one drive attaching to EZ_RAID1.

I have ALL other DH Deluxe data-drive SATA connectors in use. The JMicron one is for a second external eSATA when I get my two eSATA boxes filled later. SATA3 and SATA4 are 500GB data drives.

So has anyone tried to make use of either EZ_RAID1 by itself or SATA1 as a single non-boot data drive and succeded? If I can just tell SATA1 it's not the boot drive I'd be OK, but the manual doesn't mention using SATA1 for a data drive even when you have a PATA boot drive like I do.

Thanks...
When I first got my seagate 250's I was testing them idividually before I built my array. The EZ-Raid_1 port would not work for me. As far as I understand it, the Silicon Image chipset takes the signal from port #2 of the ICH7R and splits it for use in Raid 0 (fast), Raid 1 (safe), or JBOD (big). I ended up having to test it on the JMicron controller. I did find out when testing a Tt Max4 external enclosure that the JMicron chipset does not support "hot swap" - only the Intel, Nvidia and a couple others do (Silicon Image IIRC).

Is the EZ-Raid_0 port in use? That one should work fine if it's not. Otherwise, I would suggest getting a new SATA controller card if you don't have enough ports on that Best Buy one you've got.