Trying to set up RAID on GNBMAX-FISR

Am building machine - P4 2.8Ghz, 2x512Mb Corsair CMX-512-2700C2 RAM, CD and CD/DVD.
Trying to set up RAID using the Promise built in RAID controller with EIDE drives. According to the manual, you attach a single drive to the RAID connector (IDE3) and I assume the other drive to one of the other two IDE connectors, boot machine and do the CTRL+F to enter the RAID setup. It only see's the one drive, never the second one. I tried to install from scratch, using the "F6" option in the XP install to install RAID drivers, but didn't work. I am going to try installing XP on both drives individually, then conect to the RAID and see if it was just a driver install issue. Anyone out there set up a RAID n this board? The only other RAID I set up was on a PCI card RAID controller.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for the reply. So if I am understanding you correctly, I HAVE to use the SATA connector(s) regardless of if I use the IDE3 for one of the drives? Or like you say, just get the adaptors for both drives and run them on the SATA to get my RAID 1 array set up?
I have 2 WD800BB 80GB drives I want to set up for redundancy.

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