Thanks for your guide. I would've tried it if I had a spare machine with a Promise RAID on it :) A question if I may: > 4. Make partitions on individual ide disks using fdisk. Reboot. Boot again > in CD#1 using "linux noprobe Appendline". Go into manual partitioning > using DRUID. Make sure you see all the partitions you made on both disks > and they are how you wanted. If not or if wrong, make changes in DRUID and > reboot. > > 5. Create raid array of your taste. Boot in CD#1 using "linux noprobe > Appendline" If I understood correctly, at this stage there is no ATA RAID driver loaded - not the Promise one nor the native one. So how can I define a "raid array of my taste" if there is no RAID module loaded? Alon.