forcing recognition of sataraid har drive

I will make this as specific has possible.

I just completed building a system.
I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
I installed a amd 3000+ processor
512 mgs of ddr ram

during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is where
the problem starts.

I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.

I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
windows xp home edition.

I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig harddrive,
however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.

the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except that
it was a SATARAID connect instead.

I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed it.
After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to recognize
the new drive.
I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt to
make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot change
over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.


When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt to
boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the sata
hard drive.
My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot and
install windows xp and use it primarily.

I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system board for
the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an recover the
software.

This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be able to
make into a single 160.
please help