This may be possible - do some research to see if it is viable...

1. Re-compile the kmod-aacraid driver from elrepo and install
2. Get the arcconf linux utility
3. Use arcconf to set the controller to HBA mode to expose the individual disks

Tony... http://www.sraellis.tk/

I've tried and failed to build any of the kmod-aacraid drivers. ClearOS comes v1.2-1 of the driver. Can you give the PCI ID of the card. Perhaps do an "lspci -knn" and search the output. Also check the output for which drivers are listed against against it.

I have bumped into posts saying the card will handle arrays up to 2TB which does not seem very big - perhaps it was a disk limit, more research is needed. How big are your disks and how big is the array you are trying to build on each controller?

Hi Tony / Nick

Thank you for the responce, but i have abandoned this idea... It seems that this card firmware is limited to 1TB drives.
As i do not reqire RAID, i have user a 4x SATA I/F for now, i shall see if i can get a 2 Port PCIe SATA I/F on Monday.

With the 4 Port SATA I/F card, the drives are visible.

You should still be able to do RAID with the native Linux utility, mdadm, and standard SATA ports. There are a couple of knowledgebase articles here and here.