FC4 sees individual discs from RAID0 or JBOD

[Dr.Diesel]

Highpoint RocketRaid 100, set the array to Raid 0 or JBOD. While booting the RAID BIOS shows the single array while detecting the drives. Then fdisk -l shows each individual discs?

Is it possible the built in highpoint drivers are able to "see through" the array and I need to compile the Highpoint specific ones?

[pert]

Yeah. I've seen this before. Ended up using software RAID though as it's generally easier (than the 'hardware' RAID) if you're not trying to boot from the RAIDed disks.

[markkuk]

It's a fakeRAID adapter. All the RAID functions are implemented in software, either in BIOS or by the proprietary drivers provided by HighPoint. The standard Linux drivers shows separate disks, because that's what the hardware on the card shows.

[Dr.Diesel]

Well, I am reasonably sure the card thinks it is a single volume. At least that is what it shows on the RAID card boot BIOS.

Any suggestions to try? I have the latest Highpoint BIOS.

Thanks
Andy

[markkuk]

Yes, the BIOS software shows you the fakeRAID array, but Linux doesn't use BIOS for disk access.