To follow up on my own post: I have seen the same problem now on a
number of other machines of this type with such a raid configuration, so
unfortunately, it is not just a single machine with a broken
configuration.
I filed a bug report, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474399
David J
After a few succesful Fedora 10 installs, I tried to install my main
machine which has 3 harddisks, 1 SATA disk (sda) for the system and a
data partition, and 2 sata disks in RAID1, set through the bios (Intel
chipset, raid bios reports as Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM
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