Asus A7N8X RAID trouble

[tharef]

Ok, I recently purchaced and installed the following upgrades to my ccomputer: 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200, Athlon XP 2400, and the A7N8X Deluxe. My problem is that even though my two 30GB IBM ATA100 HDs are noticed by the BIOS and by Windows XP, I am unable to enter the RAID configuration software at startup. I get a message like "DEVICE NOT FOUND" and Windows just starts up.

Basically I want to set up a RAID 0 array and reformat the drives.

My setup right now is as follows:

Primary Master: IBM drive 1
Primary Slave: Lite-on 52x24x52x
Secondary Master: IBM drive 2
Secondary Slave: Pioneer DVD drive

What gives? How can I get this controller to see my drives and load its setup software?

PS: My old mobo, Abit KT7-RAID, had 2 RAID and 2 regular IDE channels so I didnt have to put my optical drives as slaves, why the heck would Asus put only 2 channels on the mobo?

TIA
Confused,
Rob

 

[Shockwave]

Man, I thought I answered this...But I check and no one posted...Weird...
You have to run at least 1 drive on the SATA controller to do RAID on these boards. Its not just the Asus boards either, seems alot of the NForce2 boards are like this.

Same thing

 

[KidChaos]

Asus A7N8X deluxe has SATA RAID, not IDE RAID. In order to do IDE RAID with Asus A7N8X Deluxe, you must use SATA-IDE converters. For IDE RAID, you would have two IDE drives connected to the integrated SATA controller by way of SATA-IDE converters.

 

[KidChaos]

Originally posted by: Shockwave
You have to run at least 1 drive on the SATA controller to do RAID on these boards.

This only applies to the Chaintech Zenith motherboard. That is because it has single channel IDE RAID. For all other nforce2 motherboards (that i'm aware of), the IDE drives must be attached to the SATA controller via SATA-IDE converters.