Hardware RAID in REDHAT 9

[Logic]

Hello All,

I am after some help, I have just built a LINUX file server that uses hardware RAID (on the Motherboard)

I set-up in the RAID BIOS, the disk configuration so that on of the disks is shown and the secon disk is hidden and I have assigned a name for the RAID array. I have also set it up so that we are running RAID 1.

The problem that I am having is REDHAT 9 is seeing both disks when IU use the dmesg command.

I am not sure how to get REDHAT to see the disks as one. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance

Barry

[nukes]

Is it IDE or SCSI raid? If its IDE, then it needs software drivers. What motherboard is it? Linux will see drives, even if they're disabled in the BIOS as it probes the IDE controller. Not sure if this should apply to RAID though, but I think it would.
When you say seeing both disks, does it assign different device names for them, or is it just the one device.
Is the data being mirrored to both the disks?
What kernel are you using?

[Logic]

It is an IDE RAID system on an ABIT IT7-MAX2 motherboard.

Yes both disks are being assigned different device names, one is being assigned hde and the other is hdg. (hda is boot disk & hdc is DVD-ROM)

I am running (well trying to ) RAID 0 so the drives are striped.

I am new to Linux so I am not sure what Kernel I am running, how would I find out?

Thanks in Advance

[nukes]

type "uname -r" in a console as root to tell you what the running kernel and patchlevel are.
You may need to compile support for IDE RAID controllers into it.
The first thing you need to get is this though:
IDE raid controllers are NOT hardware based, they just provide 2 or 4 extra channels for the hard disks. They still rely on software drivers to function, whereas SCSI raid doesn't, its just seen as a single device. You will probably need to setup software RAID, but it still performs well.
Here's a collection of info on getting RAID working in Linux:
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html