Hardware Raid how?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:48:17 -0700,
  Jerry Roy <jroy at ipass.com> wrote:
> 
> I have hardware RAID-1 on my Mboard and FC5 recognized it as a single
> drive. Installed FC5 successfully and all seems to run well. I want to
> know how to test the RAID-1 capability. I have yanked one of the drives
> while the power was off and booted system. It attempted to boot and then
> went into a kernel panic. How can I get this to work like a windows box
> where I can run on either drive if the other has died or been removed?

You might consider software raid if you don't have high quality (battery
backed) hardware raid. If you can give up a bit of CPU, you will
gain flexibility (e.g. if your MB goes, you wont have to replace it with
the same model) and possibly some speed.