RAID 0 Problem: OK in BIOS, Windows sees 2 drives

[apinomus]

First time setting up a RAID 0 and encountered a little problem. First off, I am NOT using this as my boot/system drive, it will be used as a video/audio scratch drive. XP is already installed on a diff drive.

Hardware:
DFI Ultra-D Mobo (NVRaid 4.84)
2x Seagate 7200.10 320gb

NVRaid allowed me to setup the RAID with the 2 drives and it sees it as OK and Healthy. The drives are brand new and are still unformatted. Is it normal for Device Mangager to see 2 drives in Disk Drives?

Pic of Device Manager

I also open Partition Magic and it shows the disks as seperate 320gb disks.

Pic of Partition Magic

Any ideas on how to fix this? Do I format the drives individually in PM then is it possible to RAID them? Should I reinstall the chipset drivers?

 

[Slammy1]

You need to set them up from the boot rom. Make sure the RAID function is enabled in MoBo BIOS, and enter the RAID BIOS when prompted (varies from mfr). It will prompt in how you wany yo set them up. Refer to MoBo documentation for further details. Chances are, they're set up currently as JBOD and you need to select RAID option and cluster size.

 

[apinomus]

I've already enabled the NVRaid in the BIOS and assigned the disks to an array. NVRaid shows the array as striped RAID0 with a cluster size of 16k. I guess I'll try reinstalling the chipset drivers.

 

[apinomus]

Reinstalling chipset drivers seems to have done it. I didn't have RAID enabled in BIOS when installing them when I installed XP, so no RAID management was set in Windows. Alas, works just fine now 🙂