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" 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' > > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >