Asus K8V Deluxe - installing PATA RAID?

[nikko]

I'm trying to set up RAID 1. My mobo, the K8V SE Deluxe, appears to have an IDE/PATA RAID controller on board. It also appears that there are one or two SATA RAID controllers. Anyway, all I want to do is set up RAID 1 with my two Maxtor IDE/PATA drives. Is that possible? The wording in the mobo manual makes me wonder. It says,

These connection options are available for creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array: a. connect two Parallel ATA HDDs to primary RAID connector and one Serial ATA HDD to either one of the two serial ATA connectors

Why does it say *and* a serial ATA HDD? Does this mean it doesn't support just PATA RAID?

I connected my two drives to the onboard IDE RAID controller. When I got to the part where I'm supposed to pick a source drive, it only gave me two options: choice one was the slave drive attached to the IDE RAID controller, choice two was an SATA drive. Neither choice makes sense since I don't have an SATA drive installed and since I want my source drive to be the OS drive, which is the master drive that's connected to the IDE RAID controller.

Any ideas on what to do? I'm really flummoxed.

 

[nikko]

anyone?

 

[nikko]

I'm fully prepared to beg.