my experience with the 990 minitower is that the drives need to be physically connected (SATA and Power cables) for the RAID1 "Ctrl-I" set up screen to appear.
the above may seem very weird, but you may find it true, like I did, after experiencing huge frustration trying to configure RAID1 before the extra drives are physically connected. (actually I was trying to do RAID1 configuration boot array before imaging with MS SCCM from a server in central IT)
Having a main boot drive then adding Raid on top of it can sometime be tricky. I think the 990 uses the same storage controller for all ports meaning you would have to make the main drive at least a virtual disk. Is RAID enabled in the BIOS?
e.pierce
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April 19th, 2016 16:00
my experience with the 990 minitower is that the drives need to be physically connected (SATA and Power cables) for the RAID1 "Ctrl-I" set up screen to appear.
the above may seem very weird, but you may find it true, like I did, after experiencing huge frustration trying to configure RAID1 before the extra drives are physically connected. (actually I was trying to do RAID1 configuration boot array before imaging with MS SCCM from a server in central IT)
Break-Formula
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April 19th, 2016 18:00
Having a main boot drive then adding Raid on top of it can sometime be tricky. I think the 990 uses the same storage controller for all ports meaning you would have to make the main drive at least a virtual disk. Is RAID enabled in the BIOS?