[CentOS] CentOS 6 x86_64 can't detect raid 10

Sat Dec 31 03:52:43 UTC 2011
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>

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