I am planning on building a storage server for a Kiosk Manufacturer that wants to use it to update their kiosks.
They are planning on using an Intel Desktop board (I know, I tried to get them to use a Server Board). So here is the configuration
Intel 865PERL Motherboard
512 Meg RAM
Pentiun IV 2.8 GHz Prescott
Here is the storage they provided me
IBM 9 Gig SCSI
4 - Western Digital 250 Gig PATA, 7200 RPM, 8 Meg Cache
2 - Seagate 400 Gig SATA, 7200 RPM, NCQ Drives
The question is, how should I configure it? The SCSI drive has to be the D: Drive, as it is used for mission critical applications. So that cannot be the boot drive. My thoughs are as follows
C: - Boot Drive Primary Master
D: - SCSI
E: - Secondary Master
F: - Primary Slave
G: - Secondary Slave
H: - SATA-0
I: - SATA-1
I don't think I can get the SATA drives to boot in this configuration, so I am going to go with PATA as the boot drives.
Anyone with experience using this motherboard and SATA drives? I am just concerned that the SATA will conflict with the SCSI if I set it to boot.