Vista - Vista doesn't see my additional hard drives as part of a RAID arra

My system has been running fine for quite some time. I'm running Vista
Ultimate on an ASUS P5ND2-SLI mobo.

I just picked up 2 new 500 GB SATA drives to use for data storage, RAID 1 .
My OS will remain as is, on a single, non-raid drive.

I hooked up the two SATA drives and followed the instructions from my ASUS
user guide:
Via BIOS, I enabled RAID and selected the drives.
Via the NVIDIA Raid Utility I set up the RAID array as Mirrored and selected
the drives. It seemed to go well.

But Vista does not recognize the two drives as a RAID array. It shows two
distinct drives (this was with the Vista Disk Management Util and with Device
Manager as well)

I called ASUS and got someone on the phone fairly quickly, although they
informed me that I had done everything correctly so this must be a Vista
issue. According to the ASUS rep, I do NOT need RAID drivers for Vista
because the OS is not installed on the array.

Any ideas. Thanks for any help.
-Andy

Asus is incorrect, you still need to have a driver installed for the RAID
controller if it isn't already.

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