Ok, im posting here some questions i have about raid cards, mostly
what i thought they did, what i want them to do (if possible) and what
i think they do.

if there is a faq somewere that answers one or more of these questions
then please post away.

alright i bought a raid card recently
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-104-214&depa=0
that one to be specific.

now i had belived that what raid cards were for where
1. allowing you to use more then the 4 device maximum
2. allowing your drives to use there evtra nifty functions that you
cant use when just using the ide's on your motherboard, like EIDE and
ata/133 thus allowing for higher data transfer speeds then with just
the normal motherboard ide

after reading the manual i got with the cards i learned of the raid
mode setting, the 0 1 and 0+1 and understand them vaguley, however
this is not what i want to do with my raid card yet, now im not sure
if what i want to do is possible, or even understandable but ill post
it here, just let me know if im getting this correctly.

i want to connect my two hardrives and my cd-burner and dvd rom drives
all to my raid card, but as single individual drives, just as if i
were connecting them to the regular ide's on my mobo. why i want to do
this is for higher transfer speeds via the raid card, i want to be
able to transfer faster to my usb hardrive, burn cd's faster, and rip
my dvd collection faster through the dvd rom drive. i also want to be
able to use the operating system on one of the hardrives.

im not sure what my harddrives themselves are ( like ata EIDE and what
not) nor my cdrom drives, i just figured i would plug them in and hope
they were something, anything to speed up my drives.

so yes, basicly i just want my ideas confirmed or denied, can i do
what i want? is it even possible? am i missing the whole picture here?

anything you need to know about my system and my drives i will do my
best to find out.

P.S. i am currently running the burner and dvd rom drives on the raid
card and the hard drives on the ide of the mobo, when i tried to
conect the hardrives to the raid card my OS wouldnt boot (just a blank
black screen)

Paridoth

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