Sata RAID Problem 1

[sone4200]

O.K I got an Initio RAID card. (Don't ask model number I don't know). It's a PCI card. I also have a SATA Hard drive that I want hooked up. I have the card because my motherboard don't have a SATA controller.
I plugged in the card, installed all nessesary drivers. When I go into the Raid BIOS on boot up, it recognizes my Drive, but when I go to click on "create RAID" It says Innsuficient disk, ro something to those lines. I downloaded the Manual to the card, but that was no help. Do RAID cards like this need 2 hard drives on them?

I hope that there is someone familiar with the Initio RAID, because I really need this added HDD space. So any help is appreciated.

My sytem = AMD Atlon 2000+
768 DDR Ram
20 GB IDE HDD
Geforce FX 5200


And it is a 40gB HDD I am trying to install....

 

[sone4200]

P.S. This is the link to the PDF manual for the card.

http://www.avlab.com.tw/manuals/5303-0283-001 SATA II 2-channel RAID PCI.pdf

 

[Lemon13]

if u wanne create a hardware raid u need at least 2 disks (raid 0+1)

 

[Nelviticus]

Sone4200, as Lemon13 pointed out you can only create a RAID array if you have more than one disk. However your card also supports using the disks without setting up a RAID array.

The bit you need is on page 16 of that manual. You need to go to the 'Disk' menu and select 'Change to Passthrough'. You might need to select 'Rescan' once you've done that.

Once you've booted into Windows and installed the necessary drivers you'll need to set up the disk. Right-click 'my computer' and select 'manage', then go to 'disk management' (under 'storage'). If you're lucky the Disk Wizard might pop up and walk you through things (just accept all the defaults), but if not right-click the disk name in the lower-right window pane and choose 'initialise', then right-click the 'unallocated' space and choose 'new partition'.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[sone4200]

Thank you so much. That cleared up the problem and the Hard drive is up and running! Yay!