A8N-E NV Raid SATA Issues

[baketty]

Anyone having issues setting up raid on SATA? I've been playing with it all day with absolutely no luck... Here is my problem:

I have set up two 80GB Seagate Baracudas on Raid 0 with an ASUS A8N-E (bootable array). Everything seems to be fine in the BIOS and F10 raid utility. However, Windows XP (32bit) will not reconize the raid setup. I have tried F6 to load the drivers and XP still sees two drives. I am using drivers from ASUS' cd in the "IDE" folder. The RAID manual says nothing about SATA drivers.

Anyone run into similar issues? Should I just give up and run no RAID?

 

[grooge]

you dont need SATA drivers, you need RAID drivers. SATA doesnt really need drivers to work, as it is only the interface between the controller and the HDD. So you have to install the controller drivers, which can be either SATA mode (SATA drivers) or RAID mode(RAID drivers). So, once you have them, you'll have to install both drivers proposed to you by windows install, not only one.

 

[grooge]

By both, I dont means SATA and RAID, but rather the 2 choice proposed to you by Windows Install..

 

[baketty]

My apologies... I mean't SATA Raid drivers. Or maybe just raid drivers for NV Raid. I can only find bootable IDE raid drivers in the ASUS CD. I have tried these drivers without any luck.

This leads me to believe that ASUS provides SATA/Raid drivers or I'm doing something wrong in the BIOS.

So does XP require SATA drivers? Is this why my SATA Raid Array isn't getting noticed by XP?

 

[baketty]

I figured it out (wow I'm a newb on this raid stuff!).