Debian 7.4.0 onto HW raid 5

**Drenriza** · February 9th, 2015

I have bought a rocketraid 2710 HW raid controller and converted four 2TB drives to a single raid 5.

In BIOS the raid controller is seen as 1 physical disk, but when i go through installing Debian it sees it as four individual 2 TB disks.

Im not really sure what i'am missing, do you need to do something extra to install a Debian system through a raid controller?
If you have any good material / guides / other on installing Debian onto a raid system please share with me.

Thanks on advance.
Kind regards.

**Drenriza** · February 9th, 2015

I read this article
https://www.debian-administration.or...Etch_Installer

but havent got much wiser if this creates a raid 5 system

**Pumm4** · February 9th, 2015

Hi Drenriza,

This might shine some light on your situation:

http://zackreed.me/articles/38-softw...ian-with-mdadm
http://serverfault.com/questions/397...-a-spare-drive

Good luck!

**Drenriza** · February 9th, 2015

Thanks for the links Pumm4

Did they install Debian on one disk and than create the array afterwards?

**Pumm4** · February 10th, 2015

Good question, by default since you have a hardware RAID it should be easier installing any *NIX system in one go.

Give it a try.

Edit1: Links we both found were configuration guides for Software RAID.