New drives, RAID, XP, Now what?

[Cy6nUsX1]

I built the new PC.
A8N-SLI Deluxe
2 Maxtor 120G ATA133 Drives (IDE), Windows XP SP2, and I want to make a RAID 0 striped.
Floppy Drive
1 6800GT PCI-E
1 CD/DVD smoker
AMD64 3500+

I need to make a floppy disk with the Raid Drivers on it from the motherboard CD-ROM. But I can't make the floppy disk until I load XP and run the motherboard CD-ROM with the floppy making utility on it. My brain is spinning in an endless loop of un-accomplishment. Please help.

I tried creating the RAID driver floppy using the motherboard CD-ROM on another PC but the disk wont play that game---it does not see the correct hardware so it wont run the utility!

What is the procedure because mine certainly isnt going anywhere fast? I see how to make the RAID in the manual but I cant get to that until I load XP and then make the floppy and......sheesh.

HELP!

EDIT: Do I install XP on just one drive and then make the RAID later?

 

[mechBgon]

Do I install XP on just one drive and then make the RAID later?

Nope. Download the RAID driver from Asus on the other computer and extract the contents to floppy, how about 🙂 Or browse the CD for the Makedisk.exe utility that brews up the diskette you're needing.

 

[Cy6nUsX1]

doh! ok stoopid me....NOT ENOUGH SLEEP LATELY. A LARGE THANK YOU.

 

[mechBgon]

Hehe, I'd have trouble sleeping too, with those toys in front of me 😀 Have fun!

 

[Cy6nUsX1]

BTW...can both drives be on the same IDE cable for RAID?

 

[mechBgon]

For RAID, you want each hard drive as Master on its own cable, or Single Drive if the drives have a Single Drive option (Western Digital does, but I don't think Maxtor does).

 

[Cy6nUsX1]

OK will do...thanks....maybe Ill go to sleep now....yeah right!