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ok aside from the shuttle mother board i just got, all others have been in the towers when we bought the systems.

so i am now looking to update that old win98 266 hrz p2 computer mb.

i am tired of the slow slow slow loading of the song play list. so i was looking to take this old amd 900 and put it in old computer on a new mb but i am not sure as what to do either get the same shuttle board and use the same old ram and set up now?

cause i want to add a hd and this is filled now. so i was wondering about the raid on the dragon plus mother boards. would that work with adding a new hd. or should i just get a pci ata controller card.?

i heard they only let you use one device per gray cable and the mb raid would let you use 2. or am i wrong and the raid is not how to connect more hds?


thanks.

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I have raid on this motherboard but it's disabled as I don't need it (what am I going to raid with, my spare 200MB hard drives? lol) but I think it's pretty straightforward, just enable it, add a disk on each ide slot (I think you can only raid with 2 drives I'm not sure) and it should work. I think the drives need to be the same too, but I might be wrong.

As for replacing the mobo, you'd probably need more ram, and a faster cpu as well, as the old stuff would not fit. The pentium 2 most likely has DIMM slots while newer ones have DDR slots which are a bit different (you *could* get it to fit, but I would not try. )



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i was told raid is not what i need to do what i want to do? they said it is for mirroring of drives.??


and i need an ata controller card from promise or some one else that is how i need to add more hard drives that are used as added drives and not mirrored drives.



but now i got to go and find the pci ata control cards and get that and a new mother board

oh well back to the grindstone.



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Raid is more for making two drives seem like one big drive, and can also be used for expansion (to my knowledge.). The only catch I've heard of with Raid, is that the two drives you're using on it need to be almost identical.

However, if you're just looking at expanding from one hardrive, insure that one is set to Master, the other to Slave (Using jumpers located on the hard drive) and you'd be all set for adding the new hard drive as an actual separate drive.

I know that you said you had to go find the PCI A.T.A Controller cards and get the new mobo, but I hope that helps anyway for anyone.

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well i been himhawing around and still have not got the stuff now with this information i am once again wondering what is the best way to go.

but my wallet will be the major deciding factor in that.

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Just because a card is a RAID card it won't act as RAID unless you set up an array.

A RAID card will act as a PCI-ATA card as well and allow you to add up to 4 IDE devices (2 per IDE channel).

If you aren't using RAID They don't have to be the same type either. I run a 7,200rpm 60Gb WD HD and 5,400 20Gb IBM HD on a PCI-RAID card.

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Something I always wondered, how does it work when you get past Secondary slave? How does the system name it after that? I always thought you could only put 4 drives including opticals, primary master/slave then secondary master/slave.

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ok fixed this also did not get new mb for the win98 just decided to keep the old one and added the pci ata card in to it. now it has more drives in.

found out once you add in the drives you have to f disk them and set up the partitions and then reboot into windows and and format the drive you just added. if you did add multiple partitions to the drive then you will see an icon in the my computer area for each partition as its own seperate drive so each would need to be formated and have system files copied to it.

you will end up with drives letters in the proper order but your cdrom and dvd's will be changed so your programs that you set up on the computer with the cdrom or dvd before you added the drive will be asking for the old drive letter for the files it needs that it left on the cdrom and you might have to reinstall that program or tell it to find it on the new drive letter for the cdrom or dvd drive.






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