Originally Posted by Randyman...

Mine is set to "Enhanced" (I run XP-Pro) for SATA + PATA (up to 6 devices on the Southbridge). The thing is, this setting only affects the Southbridge (the ICH5R and attached perhiferals), and has absolutely no effect on the Promise controller to my knowledge. The Promise is treated as a sepertae PCI controller that does not conflict with the Southbridge's Primary/Secondary/SATA ports. Older OS's could only allocate 4 IDE devices on the southbridge, so older OS's need to have the Secondary IDE controller disabled in place of the SATA ports (2 devices on PRI_IDE, and the 2 SATA devices). XP can fully support 6 devices from the Southbridge, so it can use both IDE ports and both SATA ports for a total of 6 devices. No affiliation with the On-Board Promise PCI controller.




LOL I think I'll get this wrapped up tomorrow at work as long as I stay focused, and dig right in when I get to work. I'm planning on getting the drives removed/installed, getting the RAID array re-built and formatted, and I might have enough time to do a full Surface Scan while I'm at work. I doubt I'll have enough time to copy my files back over, so I'll do that when I get home... I'll post back to let you know how much boot time all this work saves (all this work to save a measely 10 seconds off my boot times - I'm insanely impatient, huh ).

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