890XA-UD3 and SSD RAID 0 set up

[JGS000]

Hi all;

I have an 890XA-UD3 and had a stupid question:
Win 7 Ult x64 OS.
I am running 2 WD blue 500GB sata 3gb/s HHDs in RAID 0, but just purchased 2 OCZ agil 3 60GB sata 6GB/s SSD drives. I want to use the 2 SSD as raid 0 primary OS drive. can i do this using AHCI in BIOS?

and if so, how?

I am also having a terrible time getting the OCZ toolbox app to recognize the SSD's. Keeps telling me no drives found. I realize I need to use AHCI mode for the OCZ app, but already tried this with a spare drive, fresh install of win 7 Ult x64 and still no good.

I have slipped my chipset drivers into the win 7 disk, could this be the problem?(have seen posts saying do not use amd chipset drivers here, is that true?)

thanks for any help..

Antec earthwat 650W PSU
GA-890XA-UD3 rev 1
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4Ghz
8GB(4X2GB) corsair PC1600
2X OCZ 60gb Agil 3 sata 6GB/s SSD
2X WD blue 500GB sata 3GB/s HHD
2X Saphire Radeon 6870 1GB (Xfire)

[autotech]

I would go to the OCZ forums and ask there. Seems like it is a sandforce issue not seeing the drives, sometimes secure erasing them helps windows 7 to see them. I am sure you set bios to ACHI and raid and then entered the raid utility after loading drivers off of gigabyte disk just incase the slipstreeming didnt work.

[JGS000]

I know the OCZ tool must be used with drives set as AHCI, which i understand, i have a backup PC that this works with fine.
My big question is about the SSD raid set up in BIOS.
sata controller set on AHCI or set on RAID?

if i set AHCI in BIOS, there is no raid set up (CTRL-F) during POST to create the array.
If I set RAID in BIOS, I can create the array, but all my drives show up as SCSI devices.

so just wondering if I was missing the boat and there is a way to set all the sata controloers to AHCI and still be able to create RAID array- kind of get the best of both worlds.

[absic]

Hi there,

when you enable RAID in the BIOS any drives attached to the RAID controller NOT in the RAID Array will run in AHCI Mode.