Quote Originally Posted by mikepaul View Post
Looking at the downloadable DH Deluxe manual, I see EZ_RAID2 and EZ_RAID1 but no 0. SATA_RAID1, SATA3 and SATA4 are all in use.

The 2-internal or 2-external port card from Best Buy (can't recall brand) is pure RAID but BIG accepts one drive, so if I stick another drive on it they will be BIGged together and that's not what I'm looking for. It was only $50 for a SATA2 300Mbps card, since the cheaper cards were SATA1 150Mbps I don't want to have to use. Online availability of CHEAP non-RAID 2-port SATA2 controller cards was just not there.

The BB card does hot-swap, though. No drive detected when the raw drive was installed, but when I'd created the partition then swapped the drive between trays during testing, the good tray put it back in use just fine. Reminded me of holding a gyroscope when I pulled it out.

I'll see if I can use SATA1 as a data drive, then rethink the second tray if necessary...
Sorry, I remembered wrong - I thought it was 0 & 1. I thought you had it hooked up to the second port, not the first. But anyway, I have mine set right now as Safe (Raid 1), even though it's running as raid 0 & 5 for the Matrix Raid. If nothing else is hooked up to the second port, try setting it to Safe, which should be the jumper on the left and the jumper on the right.