Rick,
Are you sure your drives weren't ever configured as RAID in
the BIOS level? One issue that I have run into a lot (and is
extremely annoying) is the residual tattooing hard drives
for motherboard RAID support. If your machine is ever configured
that way, dmraid is too dumb to realize when you have stopped
using motherboard RAID support and have switched to software
RAID. For example, if you had two drives as a Promise RAID
mirror and then switched them to simple IDE mode instead, the
anaconda installer will always misread them after they are
configured as software RAID unless you have disabled dmraid
in the kernel. This is a really big problem here because our
workstation vendor insists on testing machines with motherboard
RAID support before they ship them. Once you do that it is
near impossible to remove the low-level tattooing on the
drives.
Jack
