should work, if the card fits in

with three drives the only options are raid1+HS, raid0 or raid5

raid0 will be fastest, raid1+HS will be the most redundant

should and will work.

well, if I had a proper PC I'd put the drive inside it, it's a normal sats disk in there, but since I have a laptop - no luck.
and Irish prices for computer parts are so high, I'll probably stick to...

well, my XP is at SP1 level, I can't update it because of the software I am using on it.

my advice - move to Linux :)

having the same issue - it disappears in XP, bluescrrens in Vista, but works perfectly in Ubuntu.

I managed to get the drive to run longer before it locks out by updating the system BIOS.

as I said before - these conversion kits are usually the reason for problems. better to buy a controller

the way I understood it, he converted SATA to IDE, not vice versa.
but anyhow, both types of ide-sata adapters are crap. when my company wanted to use those for one of the customized machines, we...

those converts are real crap usually. don't you have proper sata connectors on the m/b?

I'd try to swap the drive's location within the rack. another even better choice would be to take the faulty drive out and connect it directly to another pc and see if it shows up there.
problem...

so let me get this right
- you are using an external USB case with one 32ogb drive in it
- you had the external drive partitioned, and saw it in your system as several logical disks
- one of the...

more hardware details please