Ahh, I was just being stupid--for some reason (despite looking at it 3-4
times last night, though this was at 3am and I was pretty tired) I missed
seeing that "SATA drive" was higher on the boot list than the "Intel RAID
Array"! So since the 1TB SATA drive is marked "Active" for boot and was
higher on the boot order, it was looking there first; interesting...
So the SATA port it's connected to on the MB has nothing to do with it,
right? That makes more sense...ok re-ordering the boot menu now and
plugging it back in. I've got the 4th and final SATA port connected to my
eSATA adapter (also from Amazon for $15) and using that for the Thermaltake
BlacX...so getting full use of all 4 of my SATA ports!
BINO
P.S. On that note, I've got this Intel RAID Array and I think it's a
software RAID; are there any threads I can lookup or does anyone have any
comments on whether it'd make a difference to do HW RAID instead? Ignore
the fact that it's all old stuff; I'm more just wondering for future system
reference...thanks!
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:20 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs
run fdisk and change the status to not active.
Some MB's do let you choice boot order in the bios
fp
At 09:48 AM 4/9/2009, Bino Gopal Poked the stick with:
>
>
>So my question: is there any way to fix this other than taking the 1TB
drive
>out and reformatting it and NOT marking it as Active? If so, would
changing
>what SATA port it's in (i.e. putting the other 74GB WD into SATA1, so it's
>seen before the 1TB one) make any difference? Is it as simple as changing
>the boot order on the PC b/c for whatever reason it's checking the drives
in
>the wrong order? Does the RAID affect this in any way, or not really?
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