I am building a machine with ASUS A8V-E Deluxe MB, AMD 64-3700+, 2G DDR. Wanted to use WD SATA HD 350G. as primary Drive. Plugged into SATA on board as instructed. Bios shows no HD, Boot for XP shows no hard drive. What am I doing incorrectly? :?
Here's my question taht I can't seem to find a definitive answer for anywhere. In the specs of the motherboard there is a spec that lists Raid 0, Raid 1 or Raid 0+1 ability. Now for Raid 0+1 I realize you need a minimum of 4 drives. I'm assuming they are referring to the 4 ORANGE sata ports on my Gigabyte 965P DS3 board. I can get windows to recognize any sata drives installed in there but what utility do i use and where do i get it to install and configure those 4 ORANGE ports to set up a RAID0+1 configuration?
Do you want the two WD 250GB HDs to show up as individual drives, or RAID?
If you want individual drives, plug each drive into SATA-II 0 and SATA-II 1 on the Intel ICH8 controller. In the system BIOS, go to Integrated Peripherals -> SATA Port 0-3 Native Mode -> Set to Disabled if you want to use IDE Legacy mode (I don't recommend), or Enabled to use AHCI mode (recommended). Using AHCI mode will require an F6 driver disk to be used during Windows XP installation.