[KLUG Members] RE:RE: Really a Raid 5 controller?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Thanks for restoring a little bit of my sanity.

Wow, I'm rarely blamed for the restoration/installation/manifestation of sanity.

>I had tried a man md and got no man entry. I was hoping md might be a
>motherboard driver.

It is the raidtools package on RedHat.  You can man raidstart, raidstop, 
raidhotadd, etc... Everything raid* in /sbin.

>The box reporting the md calibration has only one IDE HDD. My only Raid
>experience is hardware Raid. Is md something I need to turn off on this box?
>If so, how?

Nope.  If you don't use it it just lies their dormant.  It is part of the stock 
kernel.