Sata Raid

[clocker2]

This weekend I finished building a small server for my brother's company.
Board is an Abit NF7-S, OS is Windows Small Business Server 2003 and the twin 74GB Raptors are in a RAID1 array.

In Disk Management, Windows only shows one drive.
On his old server ( Server 2000 w/ SCSI RAID 1), Disk Management shows TWO C: drives and shows their status ( i.e. "healthy").

During boot up, the system detects the two Raptors and shows them as a mirrored set.
We are using Trat's D24 BIOS and the newest Sata drivers from Silicon Image for Server 2003.

Is this display anamoly a function of SATA RAID, Windows, or did we screw up?
Is there a third party app to monitor the disk status from within Windows?

[Sonny]

That's completely normal & what you would expect from setting up the Mirrored Array on the S.I. SATA RAID BIOS/Controller. If you setup the RAID thru Windows Disk Management then you would see the 2 HDDs.

[Cjwinnit]

Is there a third party app to monitor the disk status from within Windows?

There are a few but generally they are chip-specific. I have used one for my Promise controller before, also made (or at least marketed) by Promise.

[Mortis03]

I just set up a server with a raid 5 solution (similar to raid 1) and it shows only one drive as well. This is normal and something I'm not worried about.

[alien dork]

install the software for the motherboard, on the cd there should be something like raid view or soemthing that you can use to see the drives on windows.