I am using an ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi board with three Samsung T-Series drives. To begin with, the Samsung instructions seem to say that I do not need to use a jumper, that the default setting of cable select will do just fine. The ASUS instructions tell me to select one drive as the master and the other drives as slaves. Perhaps they mean via a jumper or via BIOS with cable select chosen, I am not really sure exactly what they mean and I do not know if setting up a RAID array affects the choice at all.
Next, the instructions about setting up a RAID array are not fully clear to me. ASUS mentions using a JMicron connector to the RAID controller, but I am not sure of the sequence of events. Do I hook up all three drives to the SATA ports, hook up the JMicron cable to the RAID controller and then boot up? Or do I hook up the SATA ports and ignore the RAID controller for the time being?
Getting back to the master/slave question, is it the case that if I were using three drives separately I would need to specify master/slave but since the RAID array creates a single, logical drive that the RAID controller would handle that and therefore I should not use any jumpers?
Should I just set up one drive to load the OS and get everything running and then plug in the other drives and the RAID controller once I am sure that it works?
p.s. if there are other questions that I did not think to ask, feel free to answer them anyway!
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