Z77A-GD65: Disks shown but not selectable on creating a RAID volume

Mainboard: Z77A-GD65
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K
RAM: 2x Corsair DDR3-1600 XMS3 4GB
HDDs: 2x Seagate Barracuda SATA3 7200.12 6GB/s
Upgraded System with new MB etc. yesterday and removed the old HDD.
After enabling RAID in BIOS, I went to the RAID settings with Ctrl+I. The RAID setup displays both HDDs with correct description and storage size, but when I was trying to create a new RAID volume the "disc selection" option is not selectable unless "Recovery" is chosen as RAID level. On RAID level "Recovery" both disks are selectable but no RAID volume is created during the process. When RAID level 0 or 1 is chosen still the correct size of the potential volume is calculated by the RAID setup.
Additionally, I tried the same procedure with both "RAID hot-plug" enabled and disabled in BIOS.
The HDDs are plugged into SATA-ports 1+2. No OS installed yet.

After several unsuccessful attempts of formatting and partitioning the disks, I installed the OS. Subsequent use of the thereafter installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) enabled me to created the RAID volume under Windows, which is now additionally shown on the IRST page after the POST screen.
So the RAID volume creation worked, but it still takes me wonder why I haven't been able to do this after the POST screen in the first place  .
Well, problem still kind of solved.

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