On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:36 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > 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 > Someone else originally set up the system and I don't remember the details (it was 2 years ago). When the system boots, I see BIOS panels that describe the raid drives. I assumed this was hardware raid. I believe there is controller card and also built-in to the mb. Rick B.
