> Fedora core 5 tries to read the labels that software SATA RAID uses > to provide RAID functionality. If you are using a generic XP driver XP may > see it as two drives. FC4 would also have seen it as two drives. If the > BOIS is set to RAID then FC5 will map the two to one device useing the > mapper > > Check the BIOS to see if the disks are designated as a RAID array > > Robert thanks for replying I don't intend to use RAID functionnality right now, as i 'm not still familiar with this specially when dual booting windows and FC here is what i have in bios, SATA is configured as "Standard IDE" Onboard IDE Operate Mode is on "Enhanced Mode" Enhanced Mode support on "S-ATA" I've installed the scsi and sata driver to work with windoze at install hicham.