Are you using 2006.0? Have you seen the instructions for
DM-RAID? The drives should be found as individual units as well
if you're using an onboard RAID controller. If you don't have
/dev/sd* then poke through "dmesg" for /dev/hd*.



--- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm helping a friend install Gentoo on a new Dell PowerEdge
> 2850.  It's 
> got an on-board RAID card and he was wanting RAID-1.  I get
> Gentoo to 
> boot from the LiveCD, step through the install docs until I
> get to the 
> partitioning stage.  At this point I'm in unfamiliar territory
> since 
> I've never worked with RAID before.  I can see the kernel
> module is 
> loaded and in use as megaraid_mm.  But from what I can see,
> [c]fdisk 
> isn't seeing any raid arrays.  I don't have any /dev/sd*.  I
> do have 
> /dev/rd/0 through 15 but cfdisk says it's 8MB.  I also see 
> /dev/mapper/control but nothing else in /dev/mapper.
> 
> Where do I go from here?
> 
> Assuming I can partition from fdisk, should I put the whole
> thing in 
> RAID-1?  I've seen places that say do swap on each drive, not
> mirrored. 
>   I'm not sure how you'd do that either.
> 
> Any guidance is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
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