Update.....
I've managed to ge the Drive up and visible by both the BIOS and Win XP.
I entered the BIOS, enabled the Promise Raid Controller and set it to IDE Mode (ie non-raid). I downloaded the latest driver for said Promise Controller from the SK8V section of the ASUS website. I then connected my new drive to the SATA Raid 1 socket, leaving my drive containing XP connected to the independent SATA socket. On re-boot, the drive was recognised in XP as new hardware and I was prompted for the Promise SATA driver. I installed it from floppy and I specified the location. I was also prompted for the Promise SCSI driver which I installed although I don't know why it was needed. The disk shows up in XP Disk Manager as the full 1Tb in NTFS format (well, 936Gb to be precise). Strangely, Partition Magic sees it OK, but as being in "other" format, which it labels as "BAD" although it doesn't claim there is any problem with the drive nor explain whay BAD means ??? ....I don't think this is meaningful - I lost faith in Partition Magic a while back !
There's no obvious reason why it didn't get recognised when connected to the SATA 2 independent socket, but maybe an updated driver would sort it. The latest driver on the ASUS site is dated 22 Oct 2003 - 2 months before I bought my PC, so it might be more recent than what I have.
I will re-post if I have any further problems in operation. Thanks for looking.
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