I'm trying to install Slack 10.2 and I have an "odd" setup. I have 6 harddrives in the box, 4 of which are in 2 RAID mirror arrays, and 2 that are on the regular onboard IDE controller. I want my partitions as follows;

/dev/hda1 - boot
/dev/hda2 - /

/dev/hdb is not installed

/dev/hdc1 - var
/dev/hdc2 - swap

/dev/hdd is the CD-ROM

/dev/ataraid/d0 - /usr
/dev/ataraid/d1 - /home

My problem is, when I boot bare.i on install, obviously, it sees the RAID controller (Highpoint RocketRaid100, a 370 chip add in card)as /dev/hde-f-g-h instead of an /ataraid. When I boot ataraid.i however, it sees my onboard as an ataraid setup and tries to stripe the 2 disks.

Is there a switch I'm missing here somewhere that will make ataraid.i ignore my onboard controller and let me treat it like /hda-b etc. or am I stuck just dropping this back down to 1 drive for swap/boot/root? I suppose I could live with the 2 drives plugged into the onboard in a mirrored setup, but it seems that they only want to run striped, is this a limitation of using the software RAID function?

what board do you have?
if you have a raid controller why not use:
sata.i if it is sata
raid.s if it is scsi

if you actually have an adaptec sata raid, then you might want to try the
test26.s as i have found that aacraid works a lot better on 2.6 kernel.

motherboard is a kt7a (V1.3)
RAID card is a RocketRaid 100 PCI

I will go ahead and try the test though, cant do anything but waste 10 min of my time