This is sorta a pre-software-raid question. I just bought and built a box around the Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Mobo. It has 4 IDE ports, 2 normal, and 2 upon a raid controller. I figured I could avoid using Gigabyte's raid, and do software raid upon the 2 extra ports. The problem I have is that the raid card seems to see the 2 drives plugged into the raid-ide ports, but linux does not. I was just testing/playing installing Debian Sarge. I have 2 ide drives total, and they are plugged into the raid-ide ports. When I get to the part about partitioning the hard drives, no hard drives are available Any thoughts? Thanks Jay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html