SATA drive upgrade trouble

Hi Guys,
I'm trying upgrade an existing SATA drive system.
The existing single drive setup was working fine.
MAXTOR 6Y060M0 60GB SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB 7200

I'm trying to upgrade to 2 drives below as a RAID 0 setup.
MAXTOR L01M200 200GB SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB 7200. (box details)
Couriously the details on the drive are different:
MAXTOR 6V200E0 200GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB 7200. (label details)
The new drives have a jumper setting to force 1.5Gb/s mode.
I've tried with the jumpers in & out. Same result.

I have a PCChips M952 Motherboard with VT8237 Raid Bios 2.20 The only setting for SATA in the BIOS is enable.

The SATA RAID Bios utility will not detect the new drives. I verified that the both sets of cables & onboard SATA ports detect the old 60G drive.

Does anyone have any information to share? I'm thinking about purchasing a PCI SATA card as a last resort.

Any help would be appreciated.
Ben

 

Let me be the first to advise against RAID 0. Its a good way to lose everything on your drives should one ever hiccup and at best, you will get a 3-5% speed gain so I'd call it one of the poorer decisions that could be made. As to your drive recognition with the new drives - you may need to re-detect in BIOS and/or in your RAID configuration - usually something like Cntrl-H during startup. Some motherboards will not handle SATA II with or without jumper limiting to 1.5 so a good review of your MoBo Manual might be in order. If you are having real problems, you might want to clear CMOS and then re-detect everything.
Good Luck .........