Sabertooth p67 and Raid0

[crammond]

So I'm having troubles with Raid 0

To clear thing at the beginning, I have never ever before set up any kind of Raid.

I have a Asus Sabertooth P67 and 6 HDDs + a DVD-RW.

5 HDDs are Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB, 1 of them for OS, the other 4 for 2x Raid 0

The 6th HDD is strictly for photos.

On the Sabertooth I have 4 6gb/s sata ports and 4 3gb/s sata ports.

Yesterday when I was finishing up the install of everything I connected it:

4 HDDs which are meant for the Raid 0 on both of the 6gb/s ports (Intel and Marvell), the 2 other HDDs and DVD-RW to the rest of the 3gb/s ports.

When I enter Bios, I only see 2 of the 4 HDDs meant for Raid 0 (since I'm not home right now I cannot check which controller are they hooked up to).

Pressing CTRL+I (like stated in the manual) does nothing for me.

When I let the computer boot up to windows 7 I don't see ANY of the 4 HDDs connected to the 6gb/s ports.

Now, what am I doing wrong here?

 

[sheroo]

Have you been into the bios to enable raid?

 

[crammond]

I've been, I've set it to Raid somewhere like the manual said..

 

[sheroo]

Are you using sata3 cables?

 

[crammond]

Does this matter?

I only got 2 "faster" (it said 200 sth on them) sata cables with the mobo... I assumed it's only about the speed and had nothing to do with the hdds being visable in bios/win7

 

[sheroo]

Are the 2 drives that are visible to you in the bios on the provided sata3 cables? If so swap them to the other drives and if they work you have your answer.

 

[crammond]

I'll try it but I doubt this is the problem since no matter how much I google, everyone keeps saying that it doesn't matter.

 

[jonowee]

Have you set both the Intel (IDE) ports and the Marvell ports to RAID. Also having non-RAID-ed devices on the same controller as a RAID array can cause problems.

 

[crammond]

They are not on the same controller (the raid and NONraid).

I can only set ports to Raid once (don't know for which controller that is, doesn't say)