I have a Dell poweredge 6300 box here with an AIC 7890 SCSI controller.

How do I configure it to treat all the drives hooked up to it as a single RAID 5 set? In other words, a hardware RAID set. Or is this controller _just_ a SCSI controller and RAID is the job of a different card?

If it is the job of a different card, then I believe Linux will do software RAID correct? If that is the case, do I setup the system with only a single drive first then convert it to RAID after the install? I can't seem to see any way to tell cfdisk to treat the drives as anything but single drives.

I'm mighty confused as to how to accomplish RAID 5 under Linux.

This is Slackware 9.1 btw.

Thanks.