K8N Neo4 nVidia RAID metrics

I using nVidia RAID 1 Mirror setup and am wondering if there is any way to get metrics such as error counts, drive failure etc in Windows XP. Is there a software applications or does the firmware provide any hints as to the performance(Health) of the drives? My drives are WD Raptors.
Bob...

 
Problem solved. BIOS 1.5 two times flashed and CMOS reset. New installation went fine (and better than the tens before).

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  • MOVED: [Athlon64] Clear PnP Data Pool in K8N Neo4 running xp64

    This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia Based board.
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    Hello !
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