fred smith wrote:
Hmm. I see that on newegg it's $107. There's also one named GA 7N400-LThe GA 7N400-L is basically the same mobo, without the SATA, the RAID, Dual Bios, and the IEEE1394 (firewire). It also uses a RealTek 8100C instead of the 8169 (GigaBit). The 400 Pro2 has 4 PATA interfaces, where the 400-L only has 2.
that looks pretty similar for about 30 bucks less, perhaps that's the
cheaper model to which you refer... know anything about it?
Re the GA-7N400 Pro2 that you discuss above, one thing I've alwaysYes, you can disable the RAID function in BIOS. If you need more than 2 PATA's, you might want to go with the 7N400 Pro2, which has 2 SATA's and 4 PATA's.
wondered about these boards with onboard RAID,... is it possible to attach additional drives to the RAID cable sockets and use them as
ordinary (i.e., NON-RAID) drives? So that we could have more than four
IDE drives on the system? The SATA is of no immediate use to me, I have
no SATA drives and no prospect of buying any in the foreseeable future.
(In fact I've a surplus of ATA drives already, with several in the range
of 8-40 gigs lying on the "spare parts" shelf at the moment.)
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/ComparisonSheet_ChipsetType_nForce2+Ultra400.htm
