Hello, I'm having no luck at all getting my raid 0 set up much less my sata drives, i have an asus p5gdc board with 1gb of ddr2 ram. I have 2 maxtor 100gb sata drives. The trouble comes when I setup my arrays, I try to setup a raid 0 array and it comes up with the status as failed. I have formatted both drives with my maxtor cd, and also switched out sata cables. Any help would be much appreciated.

RAID 0 is very OVERRATED. It does not increase your performance that much at all. And it is not fault tolerant. You are better off just backing up one drive to another now and then. With RAID 0, one drive fails, you lose everything anyway. WILL POST FOR FOOD.

I totally agree with Zenith. There is little (if any) performance gains when running RAID0 in a home environment. It is really only beneficial for a machine that will be accessed by many different users at the same time - such as a file server. And you are twice as likely to experience a failure that will destroy all of your data. However if you still want to go down that path. make sure your RAID drivers are up to date. Try formatting each one as a single drive to see if they function properly independantly. If you are trying to make the RAID array for your OS drive you will need to set it up within the BIOS. If not, you could try setting up the array in the BIOS or Windows. For more help you should supply your system specs. Especially your motherboard make/model and wether you are using the integrated RAID or the one that is commonly included with a separate chip. Michael J

Yeah I I just ended up going with raid because I gave my ide hard drive away, I have an asus p5gdc motherboard with an ich6r chipset, i believe that is the raid chipset. I tried setting up a Raid 1 as well and it said under degraded. I formatted each drive by itself and then went to setup the raid drive. I went into my bios and changed my main configuration to sata mode, and to bootrom. On my motherboard I have 2 red sata slots and 2 black. My book says that the red are the master and black are the slave. I have tried that and still no luck. I also tried going through windows xp install with f6 and i got to installing my ich6r drive and it said that the file was corrupted. So I'm really all out of ideas. Asus p5gdc mobo p4 3.4 1gb ddr2 667mhz 2 100gb maxtor sata drives 550w psu

There is no such thing as master and slave when you are dealing with SATA drives. Many motherboards have two sets of SATA connectors. One set is controlled by the motherboard chipset and another is controlled by a secondary SATA chipset. You must use the SATA connectors for the same chipset. Michael J

Yes, is but does anyone know why I am getting status failed when trying to create a raid 0 array, or status degraded when trying to create a raid 1 array.