Hi I'm busy setting up a Server It's got 1 x 20Gig HDD for the OS and 7 x 200gig's for the data. I'm using RedHat 9.0 The board supports RAID 0 1 but I want to let the raid controller act as a normal ide ... How am I going to do this? SOFTWARE RAID <I'm setting up RAID 5> Here's what I have. Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-8PENXP Harddisks : 1 x 20Gig 7 x 200Gig OS : RedHat 9.0 Chipset for IDE RAID : ITE IT8212 Please Help I have Googled .... so the list was the next in line Karl