K8TM-ILSR how to disable raid controller in bios?

Hi,
I have a MSI motherboard K8TM-ILSR, and have 2 sata hdd’s connected.
 I want to test my Maxtor  hdd’s with the tool called “powermax” but this tool, don’t see my hdd’s
Because it’s on a raid controller. I have my hdd’s in non-raid , when I’m booting I see non-raid, but seems still not disabled.
Is it possible to disable the raid controller in the bios, or are there other ways?
The pata controller is used for my cd-rom and writer.
Please let me know.

You can actually disable the controller, but you cannot use the disks then.
I wouldn't try messing with your raid configuration, you may lose data doing so.
You can try the following: find someone with a mainboard that supports single SATA drives. Install one drive and set the bios setting of the mainboard to IDE for that channel. Now you must be able to use the Maxtor utility. Be aware NOT to let the tool make any changes to the disk. This goes for the mainboard's bios as well. Letting these things change anything to the disk, will cause data loss / distruction of your RAID configuration.
If you use these two drives in a non-raid mode, you will be fine doing this.

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