To answer all the questions
about the ASUS P5K motherboard RAID configuration please read this.
First Yes it will work;
Second Yes IDE keep’s working to, Third will be much faster than 5%.
First
I also started to cut off
some parts from an internal SATA cable en did not get it working.
Then I decided to buy an
eSATA cable, but in
There are around 100 computer
shops around me, but at only 1 shop you can buy cables and if you are lucky you
can buy an internal one.
So I decided to buy an
external eSATA disk case, because the cable would then be in the box. Well
wrong again all the eSATA disk case’s can support in the case an SATA disk, but
the connection to the computer is USB.
Then I decided to check the
pin out from the eSATA and the SATA, on the internet the ‘experts’ say that the
pin out is the same, so I did try to measure the signals to find the transmit
pins, but I think that de disk has to send a signal first before the computer
will respond. There was only one thing left to do, Yes cut of the connector
rotate is 180 degree and solder the cable back again (it is not easy but it can
be done).
I put in the cable start the
computer and YES there are now two drives.
Conclusion the pin out on
eSATA is a mirror from SATA at least on the ASUS P5K board. See: P5K SATA
Second.
If you connect IDE devices
these will also display in the jmicron menu, and you can make also a RAID
configuration on two IDE disk drives.
If you connect only one IDE
disk, it will show up in jmicron but you can do nothing there with only one IDE
disk. But in Windows the IDE disk will appear as a normal device.
Third
I did not make a lot of disk
performance checks, but the RAID0 will give a 1.8 times better performance.
Also
When you create the driver
floppy make sure it has JRAID as volume label, if the manufacturer label is
missing Windows-XP will not see the floppy.
And to keep the install
simple and create drive C: as the windows boot device, remove all IDE devices
and all the USB disk’s (also the USB connector of your Multi Card Reader). If
you forget this jmicron will appoint the IDE drive as C: and windows will use
the first free drive letter after al the Card Reader drives.
When you add or remove an IDE
device make sure to save the configuration in jmircon.
You can fix the SATA cable
with a piece of metal (I did use the breakout from the PCI)
See. CableFix