I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'. It used to work on my old
OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead. I
wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I
built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array.
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> While in the first case you see all individual disks with their partitions
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> a /dev/mdX entry that actually contains the raid failsystem, the second one
> shows only a /dev/sdX holding the final raid drive.
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> Additionally, for the hardware based raid, you'll need a driver for the
> controller that supports the raid5. I think this is the configuration you're
> trying to run, since you mentioned that you created your raid in the RAID
> BIOS.
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> I'm not sure (I've never tried this) whether there is a driver for Linux
> supporting raid modes on board-embedded HW raid controllers.
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> Alex
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