fc5 : raid array does not appear as one drive?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:05:18 -0700,
  Bazooka Joe <fastfish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I used to pay for expensive true hardware raid cards then I switched
> to software raid and never looked back.  The extra overhead is not
> noticeable and recovery/management is easier than hardware raid IMO.

There are advantages to having hardware raid with battery backed cache,
particularly when running databases. But for home use the flexibility
of software raid is nice.