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Stray Dog Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 1

I have this motherboard from MSI

K7T Turbo-R Socket A VIA KT133A 266FSB AGP 4X

and it has a built-in promise raid card. I don't want to setup it as raid. I want to use it as a normal IDE. Can any one help on how to set it up. I am running LM8.0

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2001 4:28 am Post subject:

I've got a high point raid on my mb, Mandrake recognised it and the hard drive on it first without me doing anything.

Stray Dog Joined: 09 Jul 2001 Posts: 5

Nothing to worry about dude! Your either using RAID or your not!

To use RAID, you need 2+ hardrives and you need to configure them... which I guess you haven't done, so as far as your OS is concerned, your not using RAID. Thus, problem solved!

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2001 7:12 am Post subject:

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Nothing to worry about dude! Your either using RAID or your not!

To use RAID, you need 2+ hardrives and you need to configure them... which I guess you haven't done, so as far as your OS is concerned, your not using RAID. Thus, problem solved!

Except that even a single drive on that controller is treated like a raid array. It is a single drive striping array. LM8 does not recognize that particular controller, and as of yet, I don't have any way around that. I run LM8 on an old 3.2GB drive on my southbridge controller.

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Stray Dog Joined: 09 Jul 2001 Posts: 5

Thats strange. I'm using an AsusA7V133, which uses the Via KT133A chipset and has a promise Raid/ATA100 controller.

The motherboard has the standard two ATA66 IDE/ATAPI controllers(for CD-ROM/Hardisks) and a further two ports for ATA-100 or RAID.

My single hardisk is an IBM GXP75(45Gig), an ATA-100 drive which I have connected to the ATA-100 controller. Mandrake 8 has no problem working with this.

BUT I did see some links last night for people having problems with these controllers, I'll post the link when I get home as it might help you.

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

Speaking of the AsusA7V133. My friend has one. But it is really unstable. Does the new bios solve that or is that an oc problem. If it is the later how do you see that it is overclocked

Stray Dog Joined: 09 Jul 2001 Posts: 5

The AsusA7V133 is a TOP mobo!
I did plenty of research before buying it, it was a close call between the A7V133 and the Abit KT7A. But Asus won for it's stability!

I would recommend upgrading the BIOS. It's fairly simple and will only improve stability/performance.

Also, the board will only be overclocked if he has done so... unless someone else has been at the settings!
If you go in the BIOS, you can check the CPU multiplier, voltage, FSB and RAM speeds. If anything looks higher then it should be, you know someones been OC'ing!

My 'normal' settings for a TBird850, with 133Mhz RAM:
CPU Multiplier = 8.5
Core Voltage = 1.5v
FSB = 100Mhz
RAM = 133Mhz

If you scroll down and open a sub-menu (The first one, I think), you'll find extra settings for the RAM's CAS latency settings. If these are CAS 2 (2-2-2), perhaps it's too fast for the RAM, try bringing it to CAS 3, (3-3-3). This should help.

More importantly, the fist thing he should do id install the latest Via drivers for the mobo, availiable from Via Hardware.

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