Need HELP! Can't add a third HD to my system

[Phibian]

I have 2 already (Maxtor 40 GB DIamond plus 8, and WD 30 GB Caviar) on the Primary IDE Controller.

My 2 CD R-W/DVD drives are on the secondary IDE controller.

I' d like to put my spare 6.4 GB WD Caviar drive on one of the extra IDE controllers (Promise 1 & 2) on my MoBo (ASUS A7V266-e) but I do not want to create a RAID aray. (I also don't have identical drives to do it with).

The drive installed in the bay but doesn't appear in Windows XP or in the BIOS. I am able to enter the Promise BIOS and find the drive there, but no luck in Win XP.

What am I doing wrong? I just want extra storage space.

Any help is much appreciated.

-The Phib

 

[loup garou]

1) Do you have drivers for the RAID adapter installed?
2) Go to Control Panel>Computer Management>Disk Management. Does your drive show up there? If so, format it and you're done!

 

I belive there are two different drivers, one if you want to use the ports for raid, another for ata. I'm not sure, but i belive these are the drivers that must be used for ata 100 http://www.asus.com.tw/support/down...=10&l3_id=13&m_id=1&f_name=ata100.zip~zaqwedc

 

[lobadobadingdong]

you shouldn't have to create a raid array on the raid controller, it should work fine as jbod. but as far as winxp not detecting it....it sounds like the drivers for the other ata controller aren't loaded to me as well.