XP Pro and hard drive settings please help!

[sjm1027]

I have a ASUS A8V Delux MOBD and 3 HD:
Qty of (2) 36 gig sata Western Digital
Qty of (1) 120 gig sata Western Digital

I have 4 sata connectors labeled:
sata1
sata2
sata_raid1
sata_raid-2

I have 120 gig going to sata1
the first 36 gig going to sata2
the second 36 gig going to sata_raid1

I have my bios set to:Advanced
onboard promise controller enabled
operating mode to onboard IDE operat

Boot
1st drive viavt6420 1st hdd
2nd drive viavt6420 2nd hdd
3rd drive sata378tx2plus d0

Does anyone see anything wrong here with these settings?
Please help if you can I am on day 3 and am at my wits end.

Thanks

 

[sithspawn]

i swear i have already answered this....

 

[sjm1027]

So are you telling me you know the answer?

 

[sithspawn]

Well SATA arent plug and play devices. Neither is raid. So when you first install windows and that blue screen comes up, you need to puch F6 to install third party device drivers. You should have gotten these with the drives/motherboard (for raid), but if not you will be able to downlaod them from the manufacturers website.
Then put them o na floppy and install them when windows first loads up and it will detect them from then on.

There is a good guide to setting up SATA at the top of this page. read it.

hope this helps

 

[sjm1027]

Thanks, Thats exactly what I did

Steve