Onboard Promise RAID - Can't configure 1

[steingo]

I am setting up a system using a Gigabyte KT400 board with onboard RAID controller. I have 2 WD800 drives connected to IDE 3/4 (the RAID Connectors). I have used the Promise cards in the past, so figured I could handle the setup, but...

When I boot the system, I get a message from the Promise BIOS saying it has detected the drives on D0 and D2. At this point, based on the documentation and past experience, I would expect to see a prompt to press Ctrl-F for the FastBuild utility to configure my drive array. Instead it just continues the boot process. I can boot from a CD but I can't install an OS because without an array defined, it won't see a drive to install to.

Anyone know how I can get to the utility to build my drive array? The onboard RAID is enabled in the MB BIOS.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Wirdo]

Have you tried changing the boot order in the bios so that it boots to the raid card first?

 

[steingo]

I did try changing the boot order. That didn't help, but I found another BIOS setting that I had missed earlier. I had to switch the mode of the onboard RAID from ATA to RAID. Once I did that, it all worked as I expected. It would have been helpful if they had mentioned this little detail in the docs, esp since ATA was the default setting, but so it goes...

Thanks for the response.