Cannot boot from RAID 1 drive on K8N Neo4

I am trying to install Win2K on a mirrored RAID array my K8N Neo4 motherboard.  Here is all the hardware:
K8N Neo4(MS-7125).  The box says K8N Neo4 F, but the intro screen says "Platinum".  Bios version 1.9
Hard drives: Two Maxtor Ultra16 250GB 7200 IDE drives.  Both on IDE controller 1 as master and slave.
AMD athlon 64 3500
I followed the directions in the manual for booting off a RAID array.
In CMOS, Enabled IDE RAID, IDE Primary Master RAID, and IDE Primary Slave RAID.
In F10 raid setup:
Set up "Mirroring" RAID array using both drives.
Enabled "boot" option for the array.
Array list shows Array as healthy.
Set boot order to "hard drive" then CDROM.
I boot from win2k CD, press F6 to install RAID drivers.
After a bunch of other stuff has been loaded, I am prompted for the RAID drivers.  I load both exactly as shown in the manual.
However, I am not sure I have the correct drivers on my floppy.  The directions in the manual for creating the floppy are clearly incorrect as they would result in nothing on the floppy.  I coppied the contents of the "pataraid" directory to the floppy.  The win2k installer asked for "nvata.cat" so I took it from the "sata_ide" directory. 
Next, the installer asks me which disk I want to install windows onto.  This seems strange as it should see the two disks as one drive.
I tell it to install on the forst drive.  It formats the first drive and transfers a bunch of stuff.  It then reboots and tries to boot off the hard drive (or RAID array in this case).  The computer is unable to boot off the hard drive.
Has anyone seen this?
What should I really make the RAID driver floppy?       

I think I know what you are referring to.  Nvidiia's documentation for nvRaidMan says that it reconstructs a mirrored array (once the bad drive has ben replaced) slowly over the period of a day.  I think this is actually a disadvantage.  The promise RAID controller allows you to immediately copy the good drive to the new drive.  It can take a while for big drives (like twenty minutes), but then you are fully protecetd again and you dont have this big task in the background all day long.  More importantly, the promise documentation makes it clear which drive is being copied to which.
I think I will start looking for a promise RAID controller and just make a mental note not to trust nvidia.

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