setting up raid for the first time

[drunkenpanda]

I am trying to set up SATA three hard drives on raid.

when i start up my computer and put that my hds are SATA on RAID , it won't read any hard drives. when i state that it's IDE, the hard drives display as seperate entities (non-raid). i want windows to detect all 3 hard drives as one.

server setup:

2 x dual core intel xeon 2 ghz
4 gigs ram
750 gig hdd
2 u rackmount
the harddrives are SATA II

 

[oplin]

put that my hds are SATA on RAID?? wtf does that mean, be more descriptive on what you are doing. List off mobo and are all 3 drives connected to the same controller via mobo or raid card? If mobo when you boot up you should have the option to press ctr a or something to go into the bios for the raid setup. You also might need to set an option in your bios if you are going to do raid or non raid, my bios has that option. Then when you are in the raid bios setup the drives there not inside windows. If you are in linus you can do it in software and there is a hack for xp pro so you can do it in software also.

 

[eDizzle]

drunkenpanda is posting for me...

but anyhow...everytime i set the option in bios to "configure SATA #1 as RAID" the computer wont read my hard drives, but when i set it to IDE it reads all 3 hard drives.

and what does SATA configuration do? it has three options
Disabled, Compatible, and Enhanced

This is an ASUS board with SATA II hard drives

 

[unhappy_mage]

Set it to raid, and hit the hotkey to enter the raid BIOS and configure the array. It'll say press ctrl-a or F4 or something at some point. Make sure the raid BIOS is enabled; it'll probably be in a menu with the ethernet controller, onboard sound, and so forth.