Fedora thinks a drive is part of a motherbaord based raid. but isnt?

[Eric Shubert]

On 11/30/2011 01:20 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Ok this is a first for me.
>
> I have a drive im trying to install FC16 to to play with gnome3 and
> the current incarnation of Fedora.
>
> weird thing is the installer thinks that the drive is part of an
> onboard hybrid array (which there is one) and will not let me install.
>
> I took the drive used the WD tools to erase the first and last 300mb
> of the drive, which is usually all that's needed to clear the Onboard
> array data.
>
> Anw hile yes the array is on, it is only useing Ports 1-4 5 and 6 are
> regular sata, and it will give me the option to isntall on the eSata
> drive thats on port 6. but this WD o have on 5 is still supposedly
> part of an array.
>
> not sure what else i can do to clear the array data unless i need to
> let the thing go through a full drive wipe and try again (instead of
> the quick wipe)
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
>

With software raid, you would need to zero out the raid superblock. I 
don't know about HW raid, but could be something similar. I'm pretty 
sure the SB is not near the beginning or end of the drive.

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-Eric 'shubes'