AN8SLI Fatal1ty - No IDE RAID found - Vista 64

[ronin99]

I have Vista 64 installed on a single SATA drive.

Trying to setup 2 other IDE disks as Raid 0. I installed the latest drivers from Nvidia (15.23 install). BIOS is setup with Raid 0 with 2 WD IDE 250GB drives. Raid comes up as healthy during the post. Once in Vista 64 the OS doesn't detect the Raid, they are listed as 2 seperate drives. There is no Initialize Disks option in Disk Manager. They are just listed as 2 seperate Basic disks and status ONLINE.

Nothing shows up in the Storage Configuration in the Nvidia Panel.

Couldn't find anything on setting up a Raid after OS is installed on a seperate drive.

Any suggestions??

Thanks

[wonkanoby]

wd ide have funny stand alone jumperless master settings

the jumpered master is only with a slave

so in an ideal world they should be jumperless on end of an ide

i assume they are on seperate ide connectors

this might or might not be relevant

[ronin99]

Wonkanoby thanks for the suggestion. I tried a couple of different combo's...both seperate controllers no jumpers...seperate controllers both master....single controller master and slave jumpers....nothing works. I tried different IDE cables...no luck.

Should be so simple, not sure what I am doing wrong.

Again nothing shows up in the Nvidia Control Panel under Sotrage Configuration.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

[wonkanoby]

try fernados drivers from the drivers section

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/nforce- ... -vf28.html

[ronin99]

Tried Fernando's drivers and still the IDE Raid is not beign detected. When in Device Manager my 2 IDE disks are listed seperately as DIsk 4 and Disk 5. Both Basic disks and both online.

I tried Fernandos_Vista_64bit_NF4-7_SATA_Performance_Pack_v5.0 and have continued using those drivers.

Under Device Manager under Storage Controllers I have:
- NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller
- NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
- NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
All the drivers for these are at 9.99.0.9.

Under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers I have
- ATA Channel 0
- ATA Channel 1
- Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
The PCI IDE controller is using MS 6.0.6001.18000 drivers. I assume this is for my DVD drive. I tried updating it to 9.99.0.9 but I get the yellow exclamation mark.

Maybe I'll try posting in the drivers forum.