fc5 : raid array does not appear as one drive?

[Bazooka Joe]

Rich is exactly right.

I sugest to undo any motherboard raid and use software raid.

-fastfish

On 8/25/06, Rich Bishop <rjb38 at drexel.edu> wrote:
> dirk ooms wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > My server has an on-board raid controller (Intel ICH7R) that has one raid 1
> > array configured (2 SATA disks). The controller uses the Adaptec driver.
> >
> > In the FC5 documentation i read "Each active RAID array appears as one drive
> > within Fedora" (chapter 5), but during the fedora install procedure two
> > drives are detected: sda and sdb.
> >
> > What am i missing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any guidance.
> >
> > dirk
> >
> >
> The controller probably isn't a truly hardware raid - a number of the
> SATA raid controllers also require a software (driver) component.
> Without this, you'll see both drives even though your BIOS says they're
> raided. We've seen the same thing on some IBM machines (x306?) and
> decided to use linux software (md) raid instead.
>
> Rich
>
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