Installing F7 on System with Hardware Raid

[Rick Bilonick]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:36 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Rick,
>     Are you sure your drives weren't ever configured as RAID in
> the BIOS level? One issue that I have run into a lot (and is
> extremely annoying) is the residual tattooing hard drives
> for motherboard RAID support. If your machine is ever configured
> that way, dmraid is too dumb to realize when you have stopped
> using motherboard RAID support and have switched to software
> RAID. For example, if you had two drives as a Promise RAID
> mirror and then switched them to simple IDE mode instead, the
> anaconda installer will always misread them after they are
> configured as software RAID unless you have disabled dmraid
> in the kernel. This is a really big problem here because our
> workstation vendor insists on testing machines with motherboard
> RAID support before they ship them. Once you do that it is
> near impossible to remove the low-level tattooing on the
> drives.
>                    Jack
> 

Someone else originally set up the system and I don't remember the
details (it was 2 years ago). When the system boots, I see BIOS panels
that describe the raid drives. I assumed this was hardware raid. I
believe there is controller card and also built-in to the mb.

Rick B.