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>>
>> It's the onboard SATA RAID controller on a SuperMicro P4SCE motherboard,
>> URL:http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7210/P4SCE.cfm
>> using an Intel ICH5-R.
>>
>>  From what I can see a pretty run of the mill motherboard.
> 
> 
> With an uptodate -current you should be able to uses the disks as such, 
> however there is no official support yes for the RAID metadata so 
> ataraid cannot pick up the RAID defined in the BIOS.
> 

With a 5.2.1-RELEASE install I can see the drives OK.

You say "no official support yet"... is there any "unofficial"
code that I can try and test to see if hardware RAID support works?

Ta
Gavin