On 12/31/2011 04:31 PM, David wrote:

Dear All,

I just got a new server with the following specifications: motherboard : Intel S5500BC CPU : Xeon Quad Core 2.6Ghz RAM : 8GB HDD : 4 x 2TB SATA with configured raid 10 using raid embedded server.

The problem is the centos installer can't detect raid virtual disk. I can't find any log error with the following error messages during installation process:

Disks sda, sdb, sdc, sdd contain BIOS RAID metadata but are not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets.

I'm already use search engine to find the information regarding to this issue, but I can't find the solutions for CentOS.

Thanks in advance

You may be better using the linux software raid - this intel board is using fake raid - thus turn off the raid in the bios and use the linux tools to set up mdraid. This is what I have done on my intel low level server systems. YMMV