I have one of these: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/promise-fasttrak100-tx2.html It's a Promise Technology Fasttrak100 TX2 2 channel IDE pci RAID card. I need more IDE plugs for various purposes (IDE DVD burner, IDE Kreon drive, ATAPI Zip100 drive) and my mobo only has one IDE channel on it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this thing to support 4 different IDE devices let alone 4 different harddrives running without any kind of RAID. Possible or should I just spring for a few individual IDE controllers? In which case does anyone know of any that are still manufactured that have more than 1 IDE channel? Footnote: If anyone wants to nitpick I'm going on the old assertion that 1 IDE plug=1 channel with it having a master/slave capability. Most cards with IDE controller chips seem to have only 1 plug but I haven't seen any controller chips that don't support dual channels, my mobo with it's single plug included.
Set it to jbod. If it doesn't support jbod, I have a sil 680 here I would be happy to trade for the promise.
Never heard of JBOD but then again this is the only non-onboard RAID card I've ever possessed. It will do everything else but it won't do JBOD. You've got a PM.
Disable the RAID mode, I've got a spare IDE PCI card here I used once, had an ifinion chip if I remember rightly? Two internal IDE slots supporting 4 devices and one slot for the external case, not sure if it was seperate to the internal connections or what.
I used a PCI IDE Raid card for the exact same purpose as you. Normally between the motherboard bios and the boot device sequence the SCSI/Raid controller bios should popup. When it does one of the F* keys should open the configuration menu and disable the RAID on all channel. Every IDE channel/plug supports 2 simultaneous devices
