If I connect my SATA HDD to the ENCORE SATA2 PCI Controller Card, can I boot from my HDD? Has anybody used this card?
My BIOS supports "booting from other device".
My HDD is Western Digital SATA 160GB.
I don't think that you can simply connect a non-RAID HDD to one of the ports of the RAID card and expect it to boot.
The reason is the HDD should already have been set in one of the many different RAID configurations supported by this card *only*, i.e., JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, or RAID 5.
Once that was done, yes, you would be able to boot from it.
In fact, even if your HDD was already a RAID configured card, say, from Adaptec or RocketRAID, the Encore card may not read another company's RAID setup the same way.
Anyway, do so at your own risk.
Okay, I think I'm understanding your question better. You want to use the HDD and connect it to the Encore card and set your BIOS to boot off the HDD connected to this card.
Gotcha.
The only thing that you would have to be concerned about is what is on your existing HDD. You will need to backup everything, then configure the new setup as a single disk RAID 0.
Install the O.S. and you should be good to go.
Good luck.
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