Was stuck at the very beginning, ie getting the BIOS to see the 2 sata drives. The BIOS setting for the SATA functions were confusing for me. The mb is a MSI 865PE NEO2-P. By default the SATA functions were disabled. I would then set them and when I rebooted it would freeze, never getting to the RAID BIOS nor would it boot from the cd. The BIOS would actually lose the CD/DVD, stating it was not installed. I'm real new to the SATA interface and have only installed OS's on a couple of machines using that interface, and never on a SATA/RAID combo.
Think I got it though. Finally got the BIOS to see the drives and got to the SATA RAID BIOS to create my RAID volume. Got the volume created and am formatting the volume now, so hopefully things will go smooth from here. Cannot think of anything I did different this time except that I now have a hard drive hooked to the primary IDE interface. One thing I noticed during server setup was that windows stated that it needed space on the IDE drive to setup server on the RAID volume. why??
Dumb question but PATA, is pata = to the ide interfaces
thanks Andy