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

[Spartan]

Are you having a problem? If so what is happening? (You didn't mention it in the post)

-Spartan

[sjm1027]

Problem is I have been trying to load xp in to my system for 3 days. It can't fine a hard drive and I or microsoft don't know why

Steve

[Spartan]

Ok, I just read your Sig and it looks like you want to set the 36 gig drives in Raid 1, correct? You will need to move them to Raid 1 & 2. I wouldn't connect the 120 at this time. Add it after the system is up and running. Make sure you have the driver disk for the Raid drivers and be sure to watch the screen for the "Press F6 to install drivers" message. After you have the system up and running connect the 120 to the header labeled with "Sata 1".

-Spartan

[sjm1027]

Hi Spartan,

You correct... I did just that. And it still goes into this thing where it still thinks there is stuff on the hard drives. I think it is looking at the mirrored drive. I think I need a format disk that will wipe away everything. Maybe have to do it 2 times... not sure

[Spartan]

Just go to Western Digital's site. You can D/L their disk utility there.

-Spartan

[sjm1027]

Thanks Spartan,
I will have to poke around today. There must be a way to get the disks back to the way they were. Remember I had this system working really nice in RAID1 for almost 4 weeks.... then something happened. So I decided to reformat the drives. It was my last effort for my original problem.

Have a good day

Steve

[sjm1027]

I reset all 3 disks to the Factory default settings (read in 0 to drive) and tomorrow will resetup the RAID 1 and load OS...
Not sure if this will work but X your fingers

Thanks
Steve