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

[Stephen]

Weirdly I have done this in the past with hardware and pseudo raid devices
and it was essentially gone. Illogical give a full wipe a try tonight and
see
On Nov 30, 2011 2:25 PM, "Eric Shubert" <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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