Need Help w/New SeaGate Barracuda SATA drives

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ChrisHarris

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I just yanked my old IDE drives and installed 2 new SATA drives. I have SATA1 and SATA0 ports on my mobo. The drives are Seagate Barracuda SATA 80gig. Both identical drives.

I want them to work as 1 unit. Windows XP Pro will only load up on 1 or the other.

The whole point of doing this was to get dual 80gig drives working together and booting together.

Do I need a RAID driver? RAID card?

I just want basic RAID--Raid 1 I think. Just want these 2 drives to work as 1 big one.

Thanks
 
you need to enable the raid rom in your bios if it isn't already and set the sata raid device as your first boot device (unless you want your cdrom or whatever before them)
then you need to go into the sata raid utility (which should appear when your sata drives are being detected just after the POST... this is where you need to set up your raid 0 array.

btw... raid 1 is mirroring and it just means that the data is backed up on the other drive... raid 0 is the one your need to used :)
 
I know I need to do something in BIOS, but I'm not sure what to do.

When I boot, I can press DELETE and enter BIOS.
Arrow down to
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS

That opens up a list:
On-chip Primary PCI IDE Enabled
On-chip Secondary PCI IDE Enabled
On-chip SATA [AUTO]
SATA Port0 IDE Primary Master
SATA Port1 IDE Primary Slave

Is this the right screen? What do I change?

I'm thinking that I change the On-chip SATA to manual, but I don't know how to configure the SATA port1 and SATA port0

Thanks
 
it should be fine in its current state, you need to go into the boot options or look for something called boot priority.

but remember that you need to get into the sata raid setup utility that comes after your system has performed its POST
 
Its says on Gigabytes website that the RAID in his mobo is:

# GigaRAID ITE8212 IDE RAID controller

Notice IDE controller. Is there only support for IDE drives in RAID?
 
It does recognize my SATA drives on IDE channels 0 and 1

When I go to my Integrated peripherals, and set that On-chip SATA to MANUAL--my SATA ports are still reading as IDE Master and Slave. I've tried adjusting them, but all it does is change which is the master and which is slave.

Am I screwed?
 
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