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I’m setting up a mirrored drive and installing windows XP, but every time through the Windows XP installation – it can’t find a physical drive to install to.
I’m using an Intel motherboard D865PERL – this has a built in SATA RAID Controller. I go to the BIOS and enable the RAID under the ADVANCED settings. Then I go into the RAID configuration by hitting CRTL + I. Under the configuration, I would select 1 to create a new RAID volume.
NAME: RAID_VOLUME1
RAID Lever: RAID1 (MIRROR)And press ”Y” to create the RAID.
When the system boots up, it would show:
0 RAID_VOLUME1 ……………. Bootable YES
Non RAID Disk
None DefinedBut when it’s time to install the Win XP OS – it would stop the installation process with an error about not having a drive. Also same result by pressing F6 to specify a raid controller – Intel® 8280IER SATA RAID Controller. It would always stop due to not finding a physical drive.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance

Yes, They are recognised by the bios and seen as only one as a bootable drive. DOS see's it as one drive.
Why wouldn't the XP installation see it?

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