Q: Heres the update!
PEBKAC, PEBKAC, PEBKAC. : D I opened the case, double and triple checked my connections. They are fine. I just refused to believe my snazzy new $ 14 could be rounded cables defective. They are really nice. Smell nice too, they have u0026quot; u0026quot; new component smell.
Anyway, I knew I missed something. Guess who forgot Autodetect stands for the secondary IDE slave in the bios? Dumb * ss. See? Its just to show you that even the semi-talented of us can make mistakes! : O
Thanks for everyones help. Whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I u0026quot;m so glad everything is OK. Will this weekend after pictures of my neat, neat thing. Unfortunately, its not as neat as WingNutPezs case. (My idol . would be a store display .) But in my defense, I have two hard drives than he does (he posted the pic) and consequently have two IDE cables to go with. It is neat when everything but to leave, and the airflow is great. (32C CPU/26C case) later. 
After my new round cables installed today, I ran the usual battery of test to take HDTach.
1. RAID array (2 disks) on the onboard RAID controller.
2. Backup HD is slave on Primary IDE Channel (same as previously)
Test runs fine on the RAID array, but when I try to b-up disk I get a u0026quot, no media installed in drive, loading media and then try re u0026 quot; message. What gives here?
Nothing has changed, but the cables. They are ATA-100. My RAID array scores 83mb/sec a burst rate, so it is obviously not the cables. Help. : (
Re:Bump for my own embarassment.
Re:RAID is working great, thanks for asking.
I'm very happy w/it so far. Benchmarks are considerably faster than single IDE drive. Real world peformance is noticeable faster than single IDE drive. Nothing really spectacular, like "BAM!" and your proggy is open, but noticeably faster.
I"m just ticked at this latest revolting development. After two weeks of "rounded-cable-madness" I finally get some nice, rounded cables and something's wrong. Damn. 
I spent like and hour ziptying them all together. It looks pretty sweet. Not as nice as WingNutPez's case, unfortunately, but still pretty neat and organized-looking. Gonna post some pics as soon as I find some free webspace. Nothing's ever easy, you know? I'll get it straightened out though.
Re:did u get ur raid worknig? i remember u had a problem wiht it.
Re:Well, I spent so much darn time ziptying all the cables together tnat I really didn't want to take everything apart.. All power and IDE connections are secure and no IDE connectors are "shifted over" by a pin or anything like that. Hmm. Obviously something is wrong. It must be the cable. Shiit. The art of carefully folding cables isn't learned overnight…I guess I have to untie the whole mess and replace that one cable. I don't get it; I know anything is possible, but these rounded cables that I got from Plycon are really nice. Extremely flexible and they appear to be well-made. Drat…it's always something, isn't it? That's the nature of the beast, I guess. If you want sucky to mediocre performance, buy a Dell. If you want top-notch perfomance, roll your own. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Re:Darn…that's the best darn "do it at home technical inspection" I've heard in a long time. The connector isn't in backwards..positive of that. I'm sure I pushed them all the way on as well, but everyone makes mistakes….I'll check it out. Sheeeeeet. I just buttoned everything up too! Oh well…where's that screwdriver. Thank you.
Re:sounds like you got pin 1 backwards on one connector, connector is not fully inserted or cable is bad – check all pin sockets from end to end with continuity tester.(Use a sew needle to get in there)
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