SATA RAID Question

[plbowler]

May be a stupid question, I'm not exactly a noob BUTTTTT


I was setting up two SATA 160 Gig WD Caviar drives in a new system usinf a Va onboard Raid controller on teh Asus K8V MoBo.

when I was in the Raid Bios, only 1 Drive showed me a size and a serial number, the other serial number was blank and the size was 0. does this indicate a bad drive?

when I tried to install winXP it said "cannot access drive"

I deleted the Raid array (it was RAID 0, sorry) and installed winXP on the onedrive that had showed the serial number and size.

do I need to do anything special to set up a raid array as a bootable.

is 36 Gig the limit on Raid 0 or is that old info I read somewhere and am misinterpreting.

thanks

 

[K1ll1nT1m3]

Does it show up now when you are running on one drive? Have you tried running the WD diagonistics on it?

 

[plbowler]

The Instructions were wrong. they clearly state that SATA1 should be master and SATA2 should be slave. they both need to be set to Master to be recognized.