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[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have two identical Western Digital 1TB SATA2 drives, which I am trying 
to set up as a RAID1 array. They are attached to a Sil 3124 PCI-X SATA 
Controller. On booting the machine, pressing F4 gets me to the controller 
card's setup screen, where I can create, destroy and repair RAIDs. I 
chose to create a RAID1 array, which duly appeared in the list of logical 
drives on this screen. I was then asked if I wanted to mirror them now or 
later, so I chose now. It took hours :(.

Continuing the boot process, I expected the OS (openSUSE 10.3) to see only 
the logical drive, but YaST partitioner reported two new Western Digital 
drives, /dev/sdf and /dev/sdg. I can combine them into a software RAID, 
but that seems wasteful and redundant, given that I've spent GBP85 on a 
hardware controller.

I've searched through the /dev directory, and can't see anything that 
suggest the logical drive.

Suggestions welcomed, though I know you're all busy upgrading to 11.0 ;)
That's my next job.

Bob
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Bob
Registered Linux User #463880
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openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1-default, KDE 3.5.7
Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS
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