Capturing to Internal Drive

Okay, I've read about the issues surrounding capturing to your boot drive, but I'm still confused. I got a new G5 and had a second drive installed. I want to capture to this drive, but it looks like it's lumped with the boot drive? When I look at the hard drive it just says I have 400Gb available. What should I do? It sounds like partitioning doesn't do it.
Thanks,
Ariel.

Do two actual drives show up on your desktop? Or only one? If only one, and you KNOW you have two physical drives installed, someone has created a RAID set as a single boot drive. You should separate these back to two volumes. Partitioning is not involved if only one volume shows up in Disk Utility.

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