Patricia Bittencourt spake the following on 1/30/2007 8:27 AM: > Hi all, > > I´m trying to create a RAID1 on a machine. I´ve already > configurated BIOS (mother board, Intel, S500VSA SATA) so as to build > RAID1 via hardware. However on CentOS Installer, when I reach "disk > setup" screen, it shows up 2 devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). > > Is this right (both devices being showed)? > > How should I proceed on this moment? If I create the partitions > on sda, sdb will be identical?? There is no away to assure this on the > installation, so that the doubt came to my mind... > > thanks in advance, > Patricia It sounds as though your boards raid is "fakeraid". http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Linux will see the base controller, as the raid is not true hardware raid. Look at the software-raid FAQ for more details. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!