M2N32-sli setting bios

[daddysauce]

hi . Does anyone know about BIOS????
this is my setup
M2N32-SLI motherboard
2 SATA drives western digital WD2500AAJS
quadro fx1500
2 gig ram -- Running Fedora 8 or trying at least

so. i installed fedora 8 onto one of the satas and everything worked. (apart from getting a "disk boot failure, insert system disc and press enter" i just had to boot from the dvd and select the boot update. annoying but still usable. i had a fully usable harddrive structure)
so looking through the manual I see theres this thing called RAID 0 - i think ok so i set that up and I can get both harddrives on the desktop with the nice icons - like on a mac)
only problem now is when i boot up theres no recognition of any drive details on the fedora DVD load) so no play. I went back into BIOS set the RAID enabled to disabled for both the drives under SERIAL_ATA CONFIGURATION to RAID disabled. I've even used the ASUS EZ Flash utility to put in the BIOS again. I cant seem to access the NVIDIA raid utility F10 or Silicon Image BIOS RAID config utility F4 to check whether i can delete the RAID if it still there somehow.

anybody got any experience with this or suggestions?
thanks all

[cleggypdc]

when the RAID controllers are disabled in the BIOS they are not configurable via the RAID utility. you will have to enable the RAID in the bios.

[daddysauce]

ok i enabled the the raid in bios, still cant access the raid utility with F4 or CNTRL S or F10 on post screen so i can delete the raid and try and get back to what i had. it says press F4/CntrlS on the post screen if i want to go to raid conf but it wont go to it

i read elsewhere there are issues with the MB recognising WD harddrives

[cleggypdc]

From what i understand, it sounds as if your chipset isn't recognised by the fedora installation you are using. From what i've read, not all chipsets are supported by fedora 8 when the RAID is set to IDE mode. Look through the BIOS for RAID options that are set as IDE and change them to RAID.

[cleggypdc]

One other thing is i would NOT recommend using RAID-0 if you are planning on storing any personal files on the hard drives.

RAID-0 is striping which will increase the performance of your machine when loading larger files e.g. movies, but as files are split between the hard disks in segments, if one hard disk goes wrong you lose everything, this has happened to me as a result of a power failure. Keep regular backups if you use this type of RAID.