Question with RAID 1 array setup.

Hi everyone,

My second post, I love the knowledgable community that exists on these forums.

Anyway, I'm having an issue setting up a RAID 1 array... I currently have a K8V motherboard which supports a SATA raid.

Originally, I was running my OS off one 74 gb 10K rpm WD Raptor. I wanted to set up a RAID 1 array to protect any important data, so I went and bought two 300 gb SATA HD's that run at 7200 rpm.

My problem is that, after connecting the two drives to the mobo... when I boot up, it doesn't detect the two 300 gb drives, and if I turn on the onboard promise driver in the mobo's bios, it will detect them, but not the WD one I boot up off of... not sure how to make it so that it can detect all three drives, and allow me to boot up off my raptor, while setting up the two 300 gig drives in a raid 1 array solely for data protection.

Any advice/suggestions is appreciated, thanks in advance!

Thanks for the reply, that's my problem though... when I have the SATA BOOTROM Enabled, and Onboard Promise Drivers Disabled, it detects the Raptor, and I can select it in the Boot priority. When I reboot however, all it sees is the Raptor, and it boots normally.

If I have both the SATA Bootrom and Onboard Promise enabled, it detects the two 300 gb drives, but not the Raptor; and in the boot order menu, all it shows is the RAID 1 array, without an option of changing it to the Raptor WD drive that holds my OS... and since the RAID 1 array has nothing on them, it gives me the error about there being no OS present to load.

I can't find a way to have it detect all 3 drives, and allow me to select the raptor to boot off of.

I'm sure that will work, however... my goal is to use the raptor drive as my OS since it's 10K rpm, and will allow me to load games faster... any other suggestions?