Having issues with a sata raid0 install

[Absolut Talent]

So i was having issues with a previous harddrive and decided it was the perfect time to upgrade to some nice new satas and give raid a shot.

Currently using a Asus A8n-e mobo and 2x WD Cav's 250gig satas currently on sata port 3& 4 (tried them on 1 & 2 and still nothing)
In the bios I enabled the raid and the sata ports.

I also downloaded the software from Asus to make a raid floppy for winXP 32bit


So it boots up, I hit the F6 key and it takes me to another screen to insert the manufacturer supplied hardware disk (which is in) and hit enter.
I do as said and nothing happens. It acts like there is nothing on the disk and keeps going back to the screen to insert a floppy.

I re-read all literature I have on this and I dont seem to be missing a step. The bios show the raid disks as being healthy and I am all out of ideas.
Can anyone perhaps give me a pointer or something foothold to troubleshoot this?

 

[sabregen]

when's the last time that you used your floppy drive? also, when it comes to the distributable RAID drivers from manufacturers, you need to make sure that you built the driver disk (floppy correctly). I'd reformat the floppt as FAT (not FAT32), and re-extract the drivers to it. Then I'd go into the floppy disk, and check the file locations. if the oemsetup.ini file isn't at the root directory, the Windows installer won't load it. It may have extracted the drivers inside of a folder on the floppy drive (or several folders). If that's the case, go down to the directory level where the oemsetup.ini file is and do a cut/paste to the A:\ root, and retry the driver installation. Also make sure that your driver is for the proper motherboard, and the proper OS.

 

[Absolut Talent]

when's the last time that you used your floppy drive?

honestly... i dont even remember. I had to pull it from my fileserver to use


and after using the Asus disk maker for it, i looked at the floppy and it doesnt have a oemsetup.ini. instead it has a txtsetup.oem file. Would I have to rename it?

formatted in fat and still no results.


*edit*
ok.. now I am getting an error
File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 1747 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

 

[Absolut Talent]

update...

Im a tard. Who wouldve thunk that a reformatted Maxtor tools floppy wouldnt have made a good drivers disk
Found 1 floppy in the basement that I was able to reformat and got the drivers list.

Thanks for the help

 

[sabregen]

heh, that's what I meant. txtsetup.oem..I'm the tard here...don't know how many driver disks I've made over the years, and I still don't know the file name. Glad you got it working though.