Neo 2 Platinum ide raid driver

Hello everyone
I have a K8N Neo 2 Platinum mainboard and I want to set up 2 times 160 gig ide in raid 0 with the onboard ide raid controller.
Xp will be installed on it. I know normally you need to have an raid driver to install the raid controller you want to use. I looked on the cd and the driver site of msi but the only driver I found was the SATA raid driver. Does this mean that the Windows XP setup doens't need an ide RAID driver at all or accept it with the usual driver when you hit f6 ?
waiting for your reply
thnks allready
Quintijn

From http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=607
• NV RAID (Software)
• Supports up to 4 SATA & 2 ATA133 Hard drives
- RAID O or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported
- RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
So - Yes, it should work just load the drivers with F6 after you select the disks to RAID using F10 at boot.

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