Adding RAID 1 to existing system HELP

[awolkoff]

Here's what I'm working with.

IC7-g (Bios 16)
P4/2.4-C
1GB Corsair Twin-x (2@512)
Raptor on SATA1
Prolink GF 5900
the usual opticals, floppy, etc

I am starting with the above gear. XP-Pro is already installed on my system (on the single Raptor). I now want to add 2 @ Seagate 160gb SATA on SATA 3 and 4 set up in a RAID 1 array using the onboard Promise controller.

I went into bios and turned on the onboard RAID, then rebooted and installed the driver. XP found and installed the promise controller. I then went and plugged in the drives. The bootup process gets to

verifying DMI Pool Data.....update success

then stalls.

Any help/ideas are appreciated.

 

[awolkoff]

update--

First its not a promise controler but an SI controller---my bad---
😱

Under
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
ONBOARD PCI DEVICE
SERIAL ATA CONTROLLER
if I set both Serial ATA controller and SATA RAID ROM to enabled, the system hangs as above.

If I disable SATA RAID ROM (which the manual implies is only for if I want to boot off this array, which I do not) then the system boots but no SI bios prompt on boot. In windows disk management I can make the drive (one? the array? who knows) active and write to it. I go into device manager and under disk drives I see my raptor and "SiI RAID 1 Set 0 SCSI Disk Device"

does this mean I have it??

???

 

[awolkoff]

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