On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:28 +0800, Ho-Ki Au wrote:

> I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon
> machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller.
> In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for
> a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5
> kernel) with dmraid='-ay' option, it came up not recognizing the RAID
> set,

dmraid is for software RAID. If you have a hardware RAID controller,
you should just see the single device presented by the controller, not the
three individual disks.


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