Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

[Martin Ekendahl]

hewitt_tech wrote:
> I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a 
> hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that 
> the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to 
> the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on it 
> without complaints. I can see that Fedora doesn't seem to have any way 
> to talk to the controller to determine if there are any drive faults but 
> that can be controlled from the BIOS. Anyone know of any problems 
> setting up a system this way?
>  
> -Alex
>  

Funny you mentioned this. A coworker and I were just discussing raid 
under RHEL. We are using ciss driver and can't seem to find anyway to 
get a status of the hardware raid array. There is some information in 
the proc fs, but nothing too informational. We are mostly concerned with 
the status of the array rebuilding. Are there any redhat tools to do this?

-Martin Ekendahl