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Compatibility of The PROMISE FastTrak TX2000 raid controller with the ASUS P4PE motherboard

Hello,

I am using a ASUS P4PE motherboard with 512M Ram, a 120GB MAXTOR harddisk and going to buy a PROMISE FastTrak TX2000 raid controller to add 2 160GB harddisks to build a raid 1 disk array. As the ASUS P4PE motherboard was bought several years ago, does anyone know the compatibility of the PROMISE rom with the ASUS motherboard rom, or does anyone have the experience of using a workable PCI raid 0/1 card (even other good model) with the ASUS P4PE motherboard to build a smooth running raid solution.

Thanks for any comment.

Lawrence

rindi

I've used fastrak tx2000 boards with many boards (mainly asus PIII boards) and have never had any problems. There should be no problems at all with your board either. Both, asus and promise make good products and are normally compatible.

rindi

Your board does have a builtin raid controller, by the way...

experts_tkw

ASKER

Hello rindi,

Yes, Great ! ASUS P4PE motherboard has a PROMISE PDC20376 raid 0/1 controller. However, the raid system seems to work with SATA harddisks. Is my understanding right ?

I am now having 2 IDE harddisks on hand and so I want an IDE raid solution.

Lawrence

experts_tkw

ASKER

Hello rindi and all,

Moreover, do you have the experience of using the PROMISE FastTrak TX2000 IDE raid card in a Linux system ? Would this IDE raid system be recognised by a Knoppix live CD ?

Thanks for any suggestion.

Lawrence

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experts_tkw

ASKER

Hello rindi,

Yes, the built-in raid card work with both IDE and SATA. Thanks for all your comments.

Lawrence

rindi

your welcome