I have recently purchased a Compaq ML570 with the Compaq Smart Array 5300 controller.
I have been able to successfully configure and run (for the last month) 8 x 18Gb drives set as 5 x 18Gb = Raid 5 + 1 Spare and 2 x 18Gb Raid 1 Mirror using the Smart Array Contoller is Hardware raid mode (nice and esay). During installation, RH7.2 used Disk Druid to partition the drives correctly with what seems to be logical Drive Geometry settings. Problem is: fdisk only sees the raid 5 (and raid 1) disk set as a drive with many sectors (lots and lots) but only 1 cylinder, very hard to partition it. I cannot see how to use Disk Druid *AFTER* installation to reconfigure drive partitions. Can you ? Can fdisk be forced to see the same logical drive geometies as Disk Druid ? Regards Peter Worboys Jupiters Limited -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
