Having problems with RAID on the Abit KT7A-RAID Mobo.

[CrazyAsian]

Hello!

I have Abit's Motherboard, KT7A-RAID and two Quantum Fireball ATA100 Drives that are exactly the same.
I'm trying to raid the Quantum drives. I want to have them in raid, and I want to install windows onto it.
But problem is after making an array, nothing happens after that. I reboot and it doesn't detect a drive letter for the
Raid drives. I did what was said in the manual, set array to RAID 0 (stripping). Later I pluged back in an old HD that still has my old windows me install software for highpoints built in Raid controler.The software was on the 3.5 disk, and after all that I still can't access or see the raid drive. So basicly I can't
use it, because I can't find it etc....
Any suggestions?

[Update]
Under Device Manager I noticed Quantum FireballP AS listed under Disk drives, but I can't assign a drive letter to it until I set it as a removeable drive, and when I do that it reads the disk incorrectly at 8GB and not 20.2 which it's suppose to add up to. Do you think not having the 2 Quantum drives formated before trying to raid them is the problem? If not any suggestions???

Thanks
Rick.

 

[sad]

You have to run fdisk and format the the drives before you can use them.