Vista doesn't see my additional hard drives as part of a RAID arra

[andys987]

My system has been running fine for quite some time. I'm running Vista
Ultimate on an ASUS P5ND2-SLI mobo.

I just picked up 2 new 500 GB SATA drives to use for data storage, RAID 1 .
My OS will remain as is, on a single, non-raid drive.

I hooked up the two SATA drives and followed the instructions from my ASUS
user guide:
Via BIOS, I enabled RAID and selected the drives.
Via the NVIDIA Raid Utility I set up the RAID array as Mirrored and selected
the drives. It seemed to go well.

But Vista does not recognize the two drives as a RAID array. It shows two
distinct drives (this was with the Vista Disk Management Util and with Device
Manager as well)

I called ASUS and got someone on the phone fairly quickly, although they
informed me that I had done everything correctly so this must be a Vista
issue. According to the ASUS rep, I do NOT need RAID drivers for Vista
because the OS is not installed on the array.

Any ideas. Thanks for any help.
-Andy

 

[Nonny]

My system has been running fine for quite some time. I'm running Vista
Ultimate on an ASUS P5ND2-SLI mobo.

I just picked up 2 new 500 GB SATA drives to use for data storage, RAID 1 .
My OS will remain as is, on a single, non-raid drive.

I hooked up the two SATA drives and followed the instructions from my ASUS
user guide:
Via BIOS, I enabled RAID and selected the drives.
Via the NVIDIA Raid Utility I set up the RAID array as Mirrored and selected
the drives. It seemed to go well.

But Vista does not recognize the two drives as a RAID array. It shows two
distinct drives (this was with the Vista Disk Management Util and with Device
Manager as well)

WHY do you want them configured as a RAID array when there are so many
possible problems with such a configuration?

 

[andys987]

This configuration will provide good redundancy for important data. In
addition, I will have offsite backup. Do you have any suggestions on how I
can solve this issue?

 

[Nonny]

This configuration will provide good redundancy for important data. In
addition, I will have offsite backup. Do you have any suggestions on how I
can solve this issue?

Nope. I have two SATA drives on my home-built system, but I chose not
to go RAID with them.

Someone will be around to help.

 

[Kerry Brown]

You need to install the RAID driver.

 

[David B.]

Asus is incorrect, you still need to have a driver installed for the RAID
controller if it isn't already.