fastrack 378

[harley84]

hello

want to start letting you know that this oldman dont know what fasttrack378 or raid is , have been reading up on it for going on a year now
and the more i read the more confused i get. is this something i need?
everytime i boot up i get the fasttrack 378 is not installed in bios , but in my device manager i got winxp Promise Fasttrack 378 and winxp Promise RAID
Console SCSI Processer Device is enabled and running properly.
in my BIOS under ADVANCED tab i got OnBoard Promise Controller [ENABLED]
and Operating Mode set to [RAID]. if i dont need this raid stuff what do i do toget it uninstalled?
hope someone can understand what i am trying to say.
thanks much
harley

[NooNoo]

You have 2 80mb drives... plugged into where? The Raid is a way of configuring a number of drives to provide speed, fault tolerance or mirroring (or all three). It is usually the preserve of a business file server or a serious gamer.

If you don't need it, disable it in bios.

[harley84]

NooNo

i had this computer custom built , i used to play these air simulation games.
all i know is that it has two WD 80G SATA 3.0G 1MB cache hard drives
and i noticed that they are plug up with flat red cables.
when it boots up it has promise fasttrack 378 and a fasttrack bios number
but right under that its got fasttrack378 is not installed in BIOS.
shoot i dont know.
when you say disable it in BIOS do you mean to put on Board Promise controller on [DISABLE] and change the operating mode to [IDE]?
if i disable it , will it slow down my pc?
thanks much , i appreciate it
harley

[NooNoo]

Without looking at it, I don't know. Have you donwloaded the manual? You could work out what is connected to where... and therefore what you are using and what you are not.

[CCT]

Asus has one of the best sites for mobo info going - sometimes a bit obtuse:

Your board: edit: may not be YOUR board but is an example - lol

http://tinyurl.com/ppl4h

Your Intel ICH5R Raid page 7 and your Promise 378 Raid page 8:

http://tinyurl.com/ykxorw