On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

> I'm guessing this is not necessarily an SL 4.4 problem, but since
> that's what I'm trying to install, I thought I'd try the question
> here.
>
> When trying to install SL 4.4 on a box with either an embedded
> RAID controller or an add-on card, and having two identical

Most embedded raid controlers are not really raid controllers at all. 
They are just disk controllers with software that does raid.  This is 
known as fake raid.

> hard disks, and having configured the RAID controller to use
> RAID 0 (mirrored disks), the installation process still sees
> two separate disks (sda & sdb).
>
> When the same setup is used to install Windows, Windows sees the
> two disks presented as just one disk by the controller, and mirroring
> takes place.
>
> Is there some special parameter one needs to pass to the linux
> installation program in order for it to recognize that the two
> physical disks are hardware RAID 0 and that it should only see
> one disk designation from the controller?

What raid controller do your have?  A lspci should show it.

-Connie Sieh

>
> Thanks!
> - Larry
>