Can you tell me why I'm getting a no drives found message tryint to set up raid

[Moonbeam]

I'm trying to do raid 0 with two 80g WD drives on a Soyo k7v dragon plus. I connected each to it's own ribbon and to the two raid controlers setting each to master even though each is alone on the ribbon and there is a single setting. I set bootup to floppy, cd and scsi. I moved the ide raid jumper to 1,2 for raid, I enabled raid in cmos and powered the drives. The machine takes a long time looking for ide devices, I think, then gives me just a second or two to hit control f. That takes me into the fasttrak bios but it says there are no drives. Any ideas why? Thanks. I had a feeling this wasn't going to be easy.

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[bozo1]

Don't set it to master. There should be a setting for single. You need to do that on WD drives.

 

[Moonbeam]

I was about to try that just in case, but it doesn't seem like it should matter. We'll see though.

 

[LED]

If you are installing XP...set your your boot up drive to CD and follow John instrutions...the Driver have to be installed from your floppy, then the HD's will be formated before you can see the drives

 

[sharkeeper]

Set the berg jumper to CS on both WD drives and make sure they are on the END connector so they will be masters.

Cheers!

 

[Moonbeam]

bozo 1, unless I happened to fix a loose ribbon or power conncetor in the process, that was the fix of the problem. Apparently it does make a difference. Thanks very much.

edit: shark, I set them to single and now the raid bios sees them,

LED, I have to set either raid 1 or 0 before I format, I think.