BIOS/OS won't see 3rd HDD as non-RAID!

This is driving me bananas.
Mobo: P35 Platinum
CPU: Dual Core E6600
RAM: 2GB
HDDs:
2x400GB (RAID0)
1x250GB
Windows Vista 32
BIOS: AMI v1.8
My problem is that since I set the BIOS to RAID, it won't see the 3rd drive (250GB) as non-RAID. Intel Storage Matrix also sees it as a RAID drive that is not working properly. Can someone please tell me how to make this stop? Thanks

unfortunately this is an issue wth all intel chipsets.  Once RAID is enabled, it is enabled to all ports.  Athough some same a seperate channel that is run through the JMicron chipset and are usually just 2 ports and they would be different colored on the motherboard.  If you have two off colored ports then put the single drive on those ports and the raid on the others.  This has been an issue for quite some time now and think Intel has finally changed it on the X38 boards now that SATA optical drives are in cheap abundance.
als, setting the third drive to a single raid trick won't work on intel boards like it does with nvidia.  Intel wants two drives or more in the array or it won't work.
You may need to pick up a cheap SATA controller card.  I bought a couple already and they were under $15.  They even have PCI-E X1 cards out now and they work for me just fine.
good luck
-=Mark=-
ps.. I just looked up your board and it seems to have a 5th sata port that is light blue and offset from the other 4 purple main sata connectors.  Try the single drive on it, I'm sure it's designed for optical drives, but should work with your hard drive, well that is if you don't already have an optical already plugged in.
psss.. I just found this info on the board.
• SATAII controller integrated in ICH9R and Marvell® 88SE6111 chipest
- Up to 300MB/sec transfer speed.
- Supports four SATAII ports and two eSATA ports by ICH9R.
- Supports AHCI controller with SATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Supports one SATAII port by 88SE6111.
So it runs through a Marvell chipset.  I didn't know they even made an SATA chip.  all I ever see was NIC chipsets.

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