Raid 0 Problem

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Hello everyone!

So I built myself a PC with the old parts I had laying around for various purposes, I decided to use my old Kingston 120gb SSDs as drives but set them up in Raid0, problem is, it won't let me.

First of all the Hardware:
Its running off an Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3, and yes, Sata mode is RAID. And as mentioned before, the system has 2 120gb Kingston SSDs.

After enabling raid mode, I went into the Raid utility with CTRL+I and wanted to set the raid, only thing is when I choose raid 0 it won't let me select the drives, its simply grayed out (hope you can see it in the pic)
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When I switch to recovery the select disks option suddenly becomes available.
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If I start without selecting the disks it simply gives me an error and only selects one drive as member, the other stays non-raid.

I've done this before on a different board and back then it went fine with selecting the disks, does anyone know where the problem is here?

PS: Heres a pic of the drives in the raid utility:
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Solution
Check in BIOS Setup for a small detail. For each of the SSD units on SATA ports, check whether the port is set to use IDE Emulation Mode or to SATA or AHCI Mode. IDE Emulation mode was a work-around used on earlier mobos with Windows XP to let you use SATA drives without using the proper AHCI configuration. But with SSD's, you MUST have that option set to true SATA mode or to AHCI. Some mobos may group AHCI and RAID modes together, because they use one driver for both systems.

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Check in BIOS Setup for a small detail. For each of the SSD units on SATA ports, check whether the port is set to use IDE Emulation Mode or to SATA or AHCI Mode. IDE Emulation mode was a work-around used on earlier mobos with Windows XP to let you use SATA drives without using the proper AHCI configuration. But with SSD's, you MUST have that option set to true SATA mode or to AHCI. Some mobos may group AHCI and RAID modes together, because they use one driver for both systems.
 
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