HighPoint Tech 370/372 RAID as boot device

[Jay Libove]

Hi List -

On an older (RedHat 9 based) system, I had an initrd built with the 
HighPoint Tech 370/372 driver module to allow for booting off of a RAID 1 
mirror on a RocketRAID 100 controller.  I was hoping that I could get away 
from having to custom build the module and custom configure the boot 
process on new builds (now Fedora Core 3), but I haven't found a way to 
instruct the standard kernel and standard driver for the 370/372 chipset 
to treat a RAID 1 mirror on the 370/372 controller as a single device - 
the boot process always identifies it as two separate devices.

Is there a magic incantation to the standard Fedora FC3 kernel 
configuration at boot time to tell it to listen to the configuration on 
the controller card and treat the mirror as a single drive? Or am I stuck 
with building custom initrds with funky configurations (which have to be 
rebuilt and tested with every kernel upgrade)?

Thanks
-Jay Libove, CISSP
Atlanta, GA, US