Hi, I've searched around for info but cant find anything to help me.

I'm trying to have a harware RAID configuration setup on one of our servers with fedora4.I've set up the raid in the BIOS(two 80GB maxtor drives in one RAID1 array).

When the server boots up,all looks fine,but when i try to install linux,linux sees both drives as sda and sdb.This cant be right can it.Surely linux must only see it as one disk.

Any one got any ideas how to get this working,as im under a bit of pressure to get this working asap.

Thanks

What SCSI array are you using (Smart array)? I have a ML350 that uses the cciss driver (with on-board smartarray controller) and I have no problems.

Post your hardware configuration and maybe I can help.

Thanks for the reply.I'm not sure what i'm using!i just went into the setup and created the array with the two drives.I'm probably missing something i'm sure.Assuming that fedora4 supports this?

Can you please maybe point me to where i can check this?

Thanks

ok,not still sure about that SCSI array you were asking about,but can someone at least tell me if fedora4 does recognize hardware raid without additional drivers needed?

If i need additional drivers,how will i go about installing them before/while installing linux?will fedora5 possibly sort out this problem?(The need for additional drivers).

Hi,

I've tried with FC5 now as well,Does not pick up the harddrives at all,asks for additional drivers.I've selected the cciss driver from list,but FC5 still does not recognize anything!Anyone have an idea,I read on a post somewhere that the only drivers that is available is for very old kernels(pre FC),and that software raid is the better option.Is this so?is there now way to get this working?

My controller,after doing a lspci gives this

RAID Bus Controller : Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=RAID

Any replies would really be apreciated.Thanks