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What to use a Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A for... ?

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First post, by bestemor

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I stumbled upon some new old stock sealed boxes with this monster card inside.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/ata … raid/aar-2400a/

Was hoping I could get some hdds to boot from this, but so far no luck...
(and seems it requires some special i20 compatibility which my slot1 mobo does not have...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2O

But the card looks very impressive, blinking lights and all, L.O.L 😁

- Just not sure what to do with it ?
(have no need for any RAID, so...)

May work in a s478 mobo, which at least recognizes the type of card, i.e. has I20 functionality in BIOS (though still no booting possible).

board_AAR-2400A.jpg

Reply 1 of 1, by Old Thrashbarg

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If you don't need RAID, then there's no reason to use a RAID card. A lot of those cards don't even support independent drives... in order to use one, you have to set up a multiple drive array of some sort.

But as for getting it bootable... it'll require configuration in the firmware (Ctrl+A at boot time to enter the config utility) to set up and build an array, and there's also sometimes a setting you have to change in the main system BIOS to enable an add-on card as a boot device. And I imagine you're probably already aware, but I'll mention it anyway... it won't work with regular dual-device IDE cables.

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