RAID setup is not working, ***please help***

[GrimReefer]

I have an Asus A7V333 and two WD 80gb 8mb cache harddrives hooked up to the Promise IDE connections. Both drives have power, are set to Master, RAID is enabled on the mobos jumper setting, inside the BIOS I have Onboard ATA set to Enabled (like it says in the manual), I've done everything my mobos manual has said to do about 50 times. I have a cdrom and a burner eached hooked up to their own IDE connections. I've flashed to their latest official BIOS 1008 but still to no avail. When the system reboots with the promise setup program, it doesnt see the drives. Its almost like the Promise IDE connectors on the mobo aren't working or something.

Any suggestions?

edit: in the Promise program it says "No disk detected: check your power and cable connections. Press any key to exit" instead of letting me select the RAID array I want.

 

[KenGr]

You need to FDISK from a bootable DOS floppy first. Did you try this and was the RAID array recognized at this step?

 

[GrimReefer]

I have a DOS boot disk I made on my other computer using WinXP, but how do I get the format program onto the disk?

 

[x1xBugsBunnyx1x]

that dos screen regardless the promise onboard raid should see the drives, are the drives spinning "touch them" if so you better check you ide ribbons next then into the bios, promise ide channel should be set to raid or fastrk not ide as i think that too is an option at least on this giga it is..
if still no go check drives on ide channel to verify them as functional, i been having probs with the 160maxtors not being recognized.
you may want to take a different lone disc 7 hook to that promise channel to verify the channel "mb" is functioning, it will pick up one lone disc
hope it helps

when working the dos screen will say array functional upon boot up

 

[mastertech01]

Are you using 80 pin ATA ribbon cables? You may want to recheck the jumpers on the drives as well.

 

[boyRacer]

I say it's the jumpers... try taking them off... my brother's WD 40GB wouldn't get detected until he took off the jumper... 😕