My 875P Neo won't light HDD LED if using SATA

I just purchased and built a new system with an MSI 875P Neo and Pentium 4 3Ghz CPU. Everything went fairly smooth except the HDD LED does not work with my SATA drives.
I tried everything. Took it back to my dealer and he tried a new board with the same results. Then we grabbed an ATA drive and hooked it up and the LED started flashing. As soon as we used a SATA drive it stopped working.
I'm using two Maxtor SATA 120 drives configured as RAID 0 on the Intel controller. Is this a problem with the controller, the BIOS or what. Is anyone else having this problem?
BTW, I did flash the 1.8 BIOS before taking it in to my dealer.
Frustrated....

Thanks...
At least I can stop pulling my hair out. I wish it had said something somewhere  on the box or in the manual or even on the MSI site, that it didn't support the HDD LED. I wasted a huge amount of time trying to figure out why it didn't work. It seems like a dumb ommission to not support the LED. I thought SATA was a step forward. I hate losing the LED feature. Does anyone know if this will this be something that will be added in a future flash update or I'm I SOL? Do other board manufactures support the LED? If not then I guess I'll have to accept it. Thanks for the help.

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