Mirror Drive

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 Defined But 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

You do have two identical disk installed that are recognised by the BIOS? Stuart

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?

Huh, DUHHHh, I didn't have the latest RAID drivers from Intel. That would help alot. ^_^. Thanks.