Got|Apex? Review: ASUS A7V8X KT400 Motherboard 10/15/2002

[Leon]

Thanks for reading the review. Please post any questions or comments in this thread.


http://www.gotapex.com/reviews.php?r...v8x/index.html

[bubbabooye]

Try setting up the raid with normal ide cables and tell me what happens I have tried several times to contact asus to see if raid setup is for serial hard drives only because I cannot get the raid to detect 2 drives when I use ide cables

[LegendKiller]

I believe the PATA raid can only work on the one connector at the edge of the board, thus you can only have a 2-drive PATA RAID setup. I can examine this further.


LK

[bubbabooye]

Ok I have tried and tried to contact asus with no prevail no nothing no emails back no phone calls returned makes me wonder if I should ever buy another asus product again.

[Baptizer]

Dang, and i was just about to purchase this board.....i have two drives i wanted to do in RAID 0 on the IDE as well..

[bubbabooye]

Did some searching found that highpoint has adapters with a raid serial card http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ but asus is promise chip wonder if they would work anyway its rocket raid 1520

[Baptizer]

I still find it hard to believe that this wont work with ide raid drives...

[bubbabooye]

Finally !! I got a hold of Asus TECH on phone 10/22/02 5:30p.m.eastern.The tech had to confirm with another tech and said it should work with ide cables One to pri_ide the other to pri_raid ide.So I have a bad raid controler BUT!! were I bought the board a local PC Store the owner which has been helping me to get info had another Asus A7V8X come in stock so he is going to put together a pc and see if it will detect raid using ides and I will know tommorow if my board has a bad raid controler

[wam1]

I was considering buying an ASUS "A7N8X Deluxe", and was wondering if i could use the "2 LANs" that it comes with to share a DSL connection directly between 2 PCs without the need for a separate DSL router or hub? The second computer will have a NIC card of course.