If the SCSI card you list behaves like all the rest of Adaptec's cards then your raid drive will appear to be a single scsi disk (normally /dev/sda).
To format it you need to first create your partition
press p
this will show you what partitions already exist, if you have just created the array there should be none.
press n to create a new partition
press p for a primary partition
press 1 for partition number 1
You will be asked for a value for the first cylinder, this will default to the first cylinder free on the disk (this should be cylinder 1) so just press enter to accept the default.
You will now be asked for the ending cylinder, this will default to the last available cylinder so again just press enter. (this assumes you want the whole disk as 1 partition and thus 1 filesystem).
You will now be back at the fdisk prompt. You need to set the partition type, to do this
press t
press 1 for partition 1
press L to list the hex codes for the partition types.
I am assuming you want a normal ext2/3 partition so
type 83 then press enter to select a linux partition
you should be back at the fdisk prompt.
if your happy with your changes press w to write them to the disk, if you wish to abort press q which will quit without applying any changes.
next you need to make your actual file system to do this enter the following command (this will create an ext3 filesystem)
Code:
mkfs -t ext3 -j /dev/sda1
-j creates the filesystem with a journal on it.
