*** Sorry for this post here. I changed my mind about posting in this LFS forum, but could not see how I could Delete it***

*** I did post in the RH forum, so please ignore if you are upset, or cannot help***

I have been trying to make SATA raid work on my Linux server for a few days now without a 100% solution.

I have RedHat Enterprise 3 Server ES.
I have on-board Promise FastTrack TX4 RAID controller (I am trying not to use it), and an on-board Intel (it says Adaptec HostRAID though when loading) ICH5-R RAID bios.

I read that the Intel ICH5-R is more stable then the Promise, so I chose that route.

I am trying to setup 2 80GB drives in a RAID-1 setup that I can boot Linux from.

Since *my version* RedHat does not support either of these chipsets out of the box, I decided to install onto a regular PATA drive, then migrate the data to the raid once it all seems to function.

I used bitkeeper and 'cloned' the libata-2.4 repository.
I then configured the kernel to enable SATA support, and modularized all the chipsets.
I then built the kernel & modules, installed the modules, made the initrd, installed the kernel, updated grub, and rebooted.

* Here's my problem! *
Even though the drives are configured in the ICH5-R bios as MIRROR (RAID-1) 1 volume of 80GB the driver is detecting them seperatly as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I would like it to find them as *1* volume of 80GB.

See the following data from `dmesg`

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.02
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:01.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 10
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors (lba48)
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors (lba48)
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda:
SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sdb:


Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank You!

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