At the risk of appearing stupid, which I am willing to do, I recently purchased a ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with intergral RAID5 hardware controller. I also purchased 4 WD 400G SATA drives to make a 1.09T (usable space) raid5 array under Linux, SUSE 10.2. The MB setup shows the drives properly configured and online ready for booting (which of course I can't until I populate it with an OS) As this MB only has 4 SATA ports, I also had to use 1 IDE port for the DVD-RW device, which does boot the 10.2 SUSE installation DVD just fine. No errors are reported with media check, nor are any errors reported when I run the memory check overnight. When I attempt to install the OS, the partitioner detects all 4 SATA drives INDIVIDUALLY as SD1-4 and offers to partition them as individual drives. It also gives the option to make a SOFTWARE raid5 array or LVM (which would defeat the hardware raid controller builtin to the MB). Neither option is what I want. The board comes with WINDOWS drivers, but there is no way in HE!! that I will put THAT on this system. I would rather the hardware rot first. I have 3 other machines running 10.2 on my local LAN but none running RAID so I wanted a place to backup stuff and a place to do some movie editing. The question is, HOW do I get the installation to recognize the HARDWARE raid that the MB is presenting via the BIOS and visible during the BIOS configuration but so far NOT visible to the SUSE installation? Is there a module or driver that can be loaded that would enable the hardware raid to be visible so that I don't have to create a software raid? Failing that, if I install a 5th drive, an IDE device for the purpose of booting the system, is there a driver/module that I could load after booting that would allow me to use the hardware raid5 drives rather than depend on the software raid? Thanks in advance Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org