How to install S-ATA RAID ?

So i use two ordinary ATA drives,
machines boots 'n all; no problems there.
Now i want to add two S-ATA drivers (raid-0) in my msi 875.
I put the drives in SER3 and Ser4 on the MB (manual p 2-19 shows which these are).
The software installs.
^F allows me to define te two drives as RAID,
The device manager shows under SCSI and RAID controllers:
WinXP Promise SATA378 IDE Controller,
along with an exclamation mark:
This device cannot start (Code 10)
I have also tried de-installing the drivers, and other SATA drivers on the CD. Same result.
Who knows what to do ?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
From Holland... Ad Weterings

I am using sata 3 and 4 on the MB
I set Bios to Sata raid
Hit control 'f' set up a striped array 2 drives 160 each total is 320 gig
loading XP Pro
Hit f6
later hit 's'
selected XP sata raid
then when it should format the disks it says no hdd (darn it!!!!!)
Well I think I have something that works now but what performance hit will I take After 'S' I choose the XP fastreack driver not the SATA raid.  It is formating now.
Will this underperform?
If not I hope this info helps others
Highflier
PS. Hw is Maxtor 160 gig SATA drives and the 875p Neofis2r

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