SATA RAID 1 setup problem

I have a pair of Seagate 300 Gb discs plugged into the SATA of an ECS
k8M800 M2 (rev.2) mainboard .
I jumped the discs to limit them to the lower data rate of 150 ....
all the board can handle .

I told the main BIOS to expect RAID .
I worked thru the RAID bios , which set up the array fine .
In Windows XP , the VIA raid tool reports the discs working fine in
the array I set up .

Problem is that there is no sign of the array or the discs in Windows
Explorer .
I´ve updated and checked all the drivers .
Device manager says the RAID controller is working fine .

I hope I´m missing somehting simple .

THanks

In Windows XP, open the control panel..
Go to Administrative Tools
Go To Computer Management
Go to Disk Management

Find the disk, create a partition(s) on it and format them.



"fffcj" <fffcj@live.co.uk> wrote in message
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I have a pair of Seagate 300 Gb discs plugged into the SATA of an ECS
k8M800 M2 (rev.2) mainboard .
I jumped the discs to limit them to the lower data rate of 150 ....
all the board can handle .

I told the main BIOS to expect RAID .
I worked thru the RAID bios , which set up the array fine .
In Windows XP , the VIA raid tool reports the discs working fine in
the array I set up .

Problem is that there is no sign of the array or the discs in Windows
Explorer .
I´ve updated and checked all the drivers .
Device manager says the RAID controller is working fine .

I hope I´m missing somehting simple .

THanks

Thankyou .
That worked fine .
For the life of me , I can´t understand why those steps aren´t
mentioned in the mobo manual .
Nor do they come up on any of the XP wizards that I launched .

Again , thanks

Chris



On 9 Jun, 17:53, "HDRDTD" <HDR...@comcast.net> wrote:
> In Windows XP, open the control panel..
> Go to Administrative Tools
> Go To Computer Management
> Go to Disk Management
>
> Find the disk, create a partition(s) on it and format them.
>
> "fffcj" <ff...@live.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> news:4eab6f1f-0ca7-4e4c-8e25-558b1cdb9745@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> I have a pair of Seagate 300 Gb discs plugged into the SATA of an ECS
> k8M800 M2 (rev.2) mainboard .
> I jumped the discs to limit them to the lower data rate of 150 ....
> all the board can handle .
>
> I told the main BIOS to expect RAID .
> I worked thru the RAID bios , which set up the array fine .
> In Windows XP , the VIA raid tool *reports the discs working fine in
> the array I set up .
>
> Problem is that there is no sign of the array or the discs in Windows
> Explorer .
> I´ve updated and checked all the drivers .
> Device manager says the RAID controller is working fine .
>
> I hope I´m missing somehting simple .
>
> THanks