Randyman...

I thought I mentioned this, but I have 2 seperate RAID-0 arrays on my PC. My RAPTOR RAID-0 array is on the ICH5R, and this is my OS drive (in 3 partitions, one OS install on each partition). My Data array with the 2x 300Gig 16MB Maxtor SATA's is on the Promise in RAID-0 (also 3 partitions: 2x 3Gig partitions for Page Files, and a large 552Gig partition for DATA). I'm not worried about RAID-0 failures, as I back-up BOTH arrays onto removeable HD caddies (I have a 160Gig HD, 2x 300Gig HD's, and a 40Gig HD all in pull-out caddy bays for B/U)

The fact that I don't have a PATA drive on the Promise controller causes my delay (the Promise appears to search for PATA drives for a good 10 seconds before moving on to the SATA detection). The instant I add a PATA drive to the Promise, the "Detection Delay" diminishes to a few seconds - BUT I don't want any PATA HD's on the promise (just the 2x 300Gig SATA's).

Sorry for any confusion. My signature is usually pretty informative about my rig, but I see we had to streamline our sigs here...

Thanks for any further info!