seting up new sata hdd?

[ilovefishsticks]

im not verry familiar with hooking up more than one hdd and didnt uderstand the raid101. If i bought one, how would i go about seting it up. do i just plug it into the second sata input on the mobo and it magicaly works? will windows recognise it? will it be on my computer? will i be able so it appears as one drive like a normal ATA raid?

Oh yea and i have a 40gig ATA drive sitting from my non running dell. How would i go about installing this on my system? would it coperate with the SATA drive already running?

Thx in advance for any help

 

[Kthulhu]

to organize raid you should buy pci sata raid controller and plug your HD into it. but if you have integrated-in-motherboard raid controller you should just plug new HD into second sata input and it will magically work! sorry for my poor english.